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FORSYTH County, Georgia -- Three illegal immigrants were ordered held for trial Monday on charges they were part of a major operation smuggling cocaine into Forsyth County on a Texas tour bus.
Chief Magistrate Barbara Cole ruled that sheriff's deputies had sufficient evidence to arrest the three —- Robert Doriz, Fredy Perez Hernandez and Freddy Vega —- on drug trafficking and conspiracy charges.
The three and two others were caught Aug. 5 with about 90 pounds of cocaine and more than $700,000 in cash.
Forsyth Sheriff Ted Paxton said the group brought the cocaine to the county on board a Texas tour bus, then took it to a home in Milton, where it was repackaged for shipment to drug dealers up and down the Eastern Seaboard.
The cocaine was stashed in the wheel of the bus and unloaded outside a garage in south Forsyth, said Sam Boone, a narcotics investigator.
Boone said garbage cans filled with bags of cash were then placed in a compartment on top of the bus for shipment to Mexico.
Posted by tyne at August 28, 2007