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The federal and local authorities of San Diego have arrested Three men in the United States – Two from Mexico and one from Salvador – after having pretended to transport nearly 8,000 pounds of methamphetamine worth more than $ 5 million earlier this week.
The incident took place on Monday around 7 p.m. in a joint investigation into narcotics in the South Bay region, announced the San Diego County Sheriff on Thursday evening.
SDCSO detectives and American border patrol agents observed three vehicles which, according to them, were loaded with drug beams. A federal complaint filed by the office of the American prosecutor of the South District of California said vehicles were loaded in a parking lot on Otay Mesa Road.
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Two of these vehicles were taken to a motel in San Ysidro, while the third vehicle went to a motel in Chula Vista, said the sheriff’s office. The three drivers were finally arrested.
They were identified by the Ministry of Justice like Erick Omar Arriola, 27, from El Salvador, and Mexican nationals Eugenio Lizama, 35, and Baltazar Rodriguez Reyes, 49.
Arriola is a criminal found guilty of having led under the influence, the battery of a spouse and a false penalty, said the Doj.
When the authorities searched their vehicles, they found a total of 61 methamphetamine bundles, Weighing more than 7,700 pounds and estimated at around $ 5.5 million.
“It was one of the largest methamphetamine crises in 2025 in the southern California district, and the most important so far by the new working group on internal security San Diego, which has recently been created by the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Internal Security at the request of President Trump,” said the GM.
The three men were reserved in the central prison of San Diego and Face loads linked to the plot, transport and possession of controlled substances for sales.
