Federal and state law enforcement in Georgia arrested a Mexican national who was in the United States illegally, after seizing a combined 1,585 pounds of methamphetamine concealed in blackberry shipments at locations in Atlanta and Gainesville, Georgia, officials announced on Wednesday.
The suspected trafficker, Gerardo Solorio-Alvarado, 44, was indicted Tuesday on conspiracy and possession charges, following an investigation.
Solorio-Alvarado has served time in federal prison for methamphetamine possession, prosecutors said.
According to authorities, on Nov. 20 law enforcement found three refrigerated box trucks parked outside of a cold storage warehouse in Fulton County, Georgia. Agents followed one of the trucks to a home in southeast Atlanta, and state troopers stopped a vehicle connected to the trucks and found two firearms and several containers of blackberries….