6 arrested in cocaine bust at Jacksonville home

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A large cause bust astatine a location successful Northwest Jacksonville led to the arrests of six radical and the seizure of 9 kilograms of cocaine, authorities said.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A large cause bust astatine a location successful Northwest Jacksonville led to the arrests of six radical and the seizure of 9 kilograms of cocaine, authorities said.

It happened this week astatine location connected West 19th Street adjacent Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway.

According to investigators, the drugs were discovered wrong the location erstwhile Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office narcotics officers executed a hunt warrant arsenic portion of a semipermanent probe into a suspected cause trafficking operation.

According to JSO, the location had been nether physics surveillance to place suspects and vehicles utilized to postulation amerciable narcotics, and respective radical were observed taking portion successful suspicious enactment believed to beryllium drug-related.

As officers raided the property, according to police, they arrested 1 of the suspects who was a operator sitting successful a parked car. Police said the rider of that car ran disconnected down the location and threw distant a pistol earlier helium was apprehended.

Two different suspects sitting successful a antithetic conveyance were besides arrested, constabulary said.

Officers said that erstwhile they executed the hunt warrant wrong the house, they located 9 kilos of cocaine — which has a thoroughfare worth of astir $900,000 successful Jacksonville — and a large, undisclosed magnitude of cash.

Then, officers said, they arrested 2 much suspects who were wrong the home.

If convicted connected authorities trafficking charges, each 6 radical arrested could look a mandatory minimum of 15 years successful prison.

And if the national prosecutors decided to record charges, they could look an further 10 years up to beingness successful national prison.