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Lorendy Diaz Beltre De Inoa, age 27, of Yonkers, and Bergen County resident Plinio Junior Pineda Lopez, age 33, of Oakland, NJ, were arrested with 1.5 kilos of fentanyl in Wallington, US Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said Wednesday, July 12.
Nearly 8 more kilos of hidden fentanyl were found during a court-approved search on Tuesday, July 11, of Lopez’s Hillside Avenue home just off West Oakland Avenue and down the street from an entrance/exit for Route 287, investigators said.
“The home also contained packaging materials and paraphernalia consistent with those used to package controlled substances,” the U.S. attorney said.
The couple ran a New Jersey-to-Florida drug trafficking operation, Sellinger said.
Lopez was charged with possessing and conspiring to sell fentanyl. A federal judge in Newark ordered him held on Wednesday.
De Inoa was charged with cocaine possession with the intent to sell it. She was released with electronic monitoring.
Lopez has a criminal history stemming from a major credit card scheme from nearly a decade ago that the US Secret Service said involved more than $500,000 worth of purchases made with hundreds of bogus cards in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, records show.
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