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PASCO COUNTY, FL -- The Pasco County Sheriff's Office says local and federal agents have made the largest cocaine bust in the county's history. Three men are in custody.
Pasco Vice and Narcotics detectives along with federal DEA agents and ICE agents made the bust after an 18-month long investigation. 52 kilos of cocaine worth about $1.5 million were found buried in a shed behind a Dade City home.
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Before the home was raided, a tractor-trailer carrying guns and millions in cash was stopped and confiscated by the Florida Highway Patrol. The semi was coming and going from the house.
"We stopped the tractor-trailer and in a hidden compartment within the vehicle we found a little over two million dollars," said Pasco County Sheriff Bob White.
After securing a search warrant, officers went to the house at 12019 Duck Lake Canal Road where a K9 officer sniffed out the cocaine.
"Our dog Missy, actually during the search warrant, located a location under a shed where the drugs were stashed," Sheriff White said.
The drugs were buried nearly a foot underground.
White said the three suspects were trafficking the cocaine from Mexico. All are Mexican citizens and are in the country illegally.
The suspects are identified as Audel Arrizon-Lopez, Rogelio Zarco-Perez and Jorge Castillo-Ramo. They're charged with cocaine trafficking.
The three men were booked into the Land O' Lakes Detention Center where they're under a $50,000 bond and being held for US Immigration officials.
