{"id":58646,"date":"2023-08-23T17:41:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T21:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=58646"},"modified":"2023-08-23T17:41:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T21:41:32","slug":"drug-operation-busted-by-deputies-disguised-as-postal-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2023\/08\/drug-operation-busted-by-deputies-disguised-as-postal-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug operation busted by deputies disguised as postal workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Detectives went undercover as postal workers and discovered a brick of cocaine that was flagged while on its way to Lehigh Acres from Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"839\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/vlcsnap-2023-08-23-15h48m26s994-e1692821577444.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58647\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Once it was delivered, they discovered a small fortune of drugs with about nearly two and a half pounds of cocaine. After searching the suspect\u2019s home, they also discovered nearly 4,000 pounds of cocaine and marijuana, as well as a firearm and about $13,000 in cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Together, they show how they found a package from Puerto Rico packed with cocaine, meant to be delivered to a home along Idaho Road in Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The package, the paperwork shows, was picked up by 23-year-old Yunior Guardado Rojas and taken to his home on Homer Avenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputies arrested him on July 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere were about seven cars all parked here in front, but the truth is, as I said, I didn\u2019t know what had happened,\u201d said Roxana, a neighbor. \u201cIt was in the afternoon, around 3, 4 in the afternoon, when the kids would arrive from school.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office arrested Rojas for possessing and trafficking drugs, as well as resisting an officer. He bonded out of jail the next day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detectives went undercover as postal workers and discovered a brick of cocaine that was flagged while on its way to Lehigh Acres from Puerto Rico. Once it was delivered, they&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":58647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[2526],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58649,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58646\/revisions\/58649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}