Brian Schlonsky:
"A major bust puts an end to an operation that was delivering several pounds of illegal drugs to Grand Junction.
Wednesday, 11 News learned new details on how that drug operation worked, and how it was stopped.
There's 14 people in custody right now, 13 of them from right here in Mesa County.
The last arrest was made Wednesday in Denver, a final piece to an investigation that's been in the works for over six months.
"This is a ring we've been aware of for quite some time, they've been dealing fairly large amounts," Dan Rubinstein, the chief deputy district attorney for the drug division, said.
And by fairly large, we're talking around 1 kilo, or 2.2 pounds of cocaine into Mesa County every ten days. That's what Federico Lerma and his family are accused of bringing into Grand Junction.
On Sunday, Lerma was arrested after police say they found a kilo of cocaine in the air filter of his car, and another fourth of a pound back at his house.
"He was using his family members to distribute with him, doing things like bringing his 7 month old granddaughter along so as to appear like a family so they wouldn't get stopped," Rubinstein said...."
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