Drug trafficking

Texas drug traffickers ‘collaborated with corrupt cops’ to sell off seized cocaine

Federal agents have arrested two drug traffickers in Houston who claim to have collaborated with corrupt police in a cunning scam to bolster their business.

Mario Alejandro Solis, 37, and  Carlos Aron Oyervides, 40, of Houston, Texas say that they involved local cops in a scheme involving drug busts and fake cocaine. A criminal complaint filed against the pair lays out some of the details:

“On March 18, 2013, investigators with the Edcouch Police Department seized approximately 19 kilograms of cocaine apparently left in a taxi.  A further examination of the bundles revealed that four bundles contained wooden blocks.”

“On April 26 2013, investigators with the Houston Police Department sized approximately 18 kilograms of cocaine from an abandoned 1996 Mazda minivan near Loma Linda Road… Lab analysis of the bundles indicated that they contained less than 1% cocaine.”...