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PHOENIX<\/strong> – A Mexican man who authorities say was in Arizona illegally was arrested for reportedly having dozens of pounds of meth<\/strong><\/a> to distribute.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Jose Ismael Castro Leon, 47, was arrested on Sept. 22 in a Phoenix<\/strong><\/a> parking lot during an alleged drug deal.<\/p>\n “Investigators with the Drug Enforcement Administration\u2019s (DEA) East Valley Drug Enforcement Task Force learned that a drug transaction was scheduled to take place in a parking lot in Phoenix on September 22. Investigators established surveillance at the location and watched as the driver of a GMC Acadia, later identified as Castro Leon, showed another person the contents of a black duffle bag that he had stored in his trunk,” said a Sept. 29 news release from the United States Attorney’s Office District of Arizona.<\/p>\n That’s when investigators moved in, arrested Castro Leon, seized more than 56 pounds of meth and a gun. When investigators searched his apartment, they reportedly found 34 more pounds of meth, more than a kilogram of fentanyl powder and a second gun.<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n “Possession with the Intent to Distribute 500 Grams or More of Methamphetamine carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years to life in prison, and a fine of up to $10,000,000,” the news release said. “Possession with the Intent to Distribute 400 Grams or More of Fentanyl carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years to life in prison, and a fine of up to $10,000,000.”<\/p>\n What you can do:<\/p>\n Read more about this case by clicking here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Drug Busts<\/a>Phoenix<\/a>News<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Photo courtesy of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). PHOENIX – A Mexican man who authorities say was…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":265031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,6082,138388,1588,50,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-265030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-drug-busts","13":"tag-maricopa-county","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-phoenix","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115290165123421909","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}