The heroin was found hidden in the axle of the trailer.
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Brennan said investigators believe the men were gong to sell the drugs for up to $2.3 million to dealers in the city, Long Island and across the Northeast. Prosecutors say a three-month wiretap investigation by the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor’s Investigators Unit and agents from the DEA’s Long Island District Office Task Force identified the suspects as narcotics traffickers. Authorities say they found plastic-sealing equipment used for packaging and plastic packaging materials in Ayala’s auto.
Agents say Fernando Quiles, 48, and Jorge Ayala, 33, recently rented the house for the sole objective of using it as a location to park the truck and to stash narcotics.
“Our wiretap investigation culminated in tell-tale signs of a major trafficking operation – a painted over tractor trailer from Las Cruces, Mexico, a sophisticated concealed compartment capable of smuggling 30 kilograms of heroin into the USA, and a house devoid of anything but drug packaging materials and narcotics ledger”, said Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt.
The axle containing the drug had been welded shut..
They say the amount seized would have yielded more than half a million individual doses of heroin.
A search of the stash house – which was empty and unfurnished – found a narcotics ledger book, tools, a scale and packaging materials.
The trailer was taken to a Tarrytown facility, the heroin was found secreted in the axle.
Over 65 pounds of heroin recovered from a truck axle in Croton-on-Hudson in Westchester..
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Ayala and Quiles were arraigned on drug charges and are being held without bail.
