MILTON, Mass. (AP) - Federal authorities say they have arrested a Mexican national who was delivering nine pounds of heroin in Massachusetts.
The Patriot Ledger reports that 39-year-old Miguel Angel Torres Morales was charged Tuesday with felony possession with intent to distribute heroin.
Court documents show the Drug Enforcement Administration had a cooperating witness order fentanyl from a drug dealer for $220,000. Torres Morales was sent as a courier to deliver the drugs.
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Authorities stopped Torres Morales driving a tractor-trailer near a Milton parking lot Monday and found the drugs in a compartment behind the driver’s seat.
Torres Morales told authorities he was just a courier and thought he was delivering marijuana.
He faces up to 10 years in prison and deportation proceedings in convicted.
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