45 pounds of meth seized, 2 arrested on federal charges last Friday in Hub City
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PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - 45 pounds of methamphetamine was seized during a joint law enforcement operation that resulted in two people from California in Hattiesburg last Friday.
According to Hattiesburg Police Department spokesperson Ryan Moore, just after 8 p.m., members of multiple law enforcement agencies arrested Sergio Covarrubias, 36, and Salvador Medrano, 60, both of California, at a hotel in the 6500 block of U.S. Highway 49 after serving a search warrant.
Both Covarrubias and Medrano are facing federal narcotics charges and have been booked in a district that houses federal inmates.
Moore says the following law enforcement agencies participated in the operation:
- Drug Enforcement Agency’s High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Taskforce
- 12 NET/METRO Narcotics
- HPD Special Ops and Star Team
- Forrest County Sheriff’s Office
- Lamar County Sheriff’s Office
- Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics
- Forrest County K-9
- Mississippi Attorney General’s Office
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