Drug busts in Wake County send 9 to jail on heroin, cocaine, meth, pot charges

Investigators from the Raleigh and Cary police departments and the Wake County Sheriff’s Office arrested nine people Thursday in a series of cases that involved trafficking in heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine.

One of the men whom sheriff’s deputies arrested also was wanted by Apex police in connection with a cocaine-trafficking case in which they had arrested a man on Wednesday.

One of the men whom Raleigh police charged on trafficking charges was also involved in a chase on Interstate 440 by state troopers, who filed their own charges.

Cary police arrest trio in alleged heroin sales

In Cary, detectives arrested Shane Cameron Collins, 32, of Penny Road in Wake County on multiple counts of heroin trafficking. The charges said Collins sold heroin to a police informant on Sept. 20, Oct. 11 and Thursday.

Cary officers also arrested Kwamane Raheem Carroll, 28, and Christopher Keshawn Henderson, 24, on trafficking charges that said they sold heroin to Collins on Thursday. Both men are from Henderson.

The three were all charges with conspiracy to traffic in heroin. Police took them into custody in the 200 block of East Cedar Street.

Carroll was held on $1,020,000 bail, Carroll on $500,000 bail and Collins on $650,000 bail.

Raleigh police charge pair in meth, cocaine case

Raleigh police arrested two men on charges that they sold methamphetamine to an informant earlier this month and cocaine to an informant on Thursday.

Police charged that Jesus Goicochea, 21, of Griffin Circle in Raleigh and Daniel Flores, 26, of Glen Echo Road in Garner sold methamphetamine to an informant Oct. 11 and cocaine to an informant Thursday.

The State Highway Patrol charged Goicochea with felony fleeing to elude police on I-440 and aggressive driving Thursday, but troopers said that was unrelated to Raleigh’s drug investigation.

Goicochea was held on $1,020,000 bail and Flores on $1 million bail.

Wake deputies arrest 3 in Willow Spring on cocaine, marijuana charges

Drug investigators from the sheriff’s office went to a mobile home on Fall Colors Court in Willow Spring on Thursday afternoon and arrested three men on charges of cocaine trafficking and felony marijuana possession.

Isak Carrillo-Venegas, 28, of 306 Kings Parkway in Raleigh and Abraham Jimenez-Moreno, 32, of Peach Road in Raleigh were arrested along with Israel Alexander Martinez-Molina, 29, at the Fall Colors Court home where he lives.

All three men were held in lieu of bail, and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials filed detainer requests saying that they appeared to be in the U.S. illegally.

ICE said Martinez-Molina is from El Salvador and Carrillo-Venegas and Jimenez-Moreno are from Mexico.

Man accused of having 2 pounds of marijuana, selling cocaine

The ninth arrest was by sheriff’s deputies, who accused Marcus Lorenzo Anthony, 38, of having a little over 2 pounds of marijuana in a shed at his home on Stephenson Road.

Anthony also was served with an arrest warrant charging that he had sold cocaine on Wednesday to a man they charged that day with trafficking by possession and transportation, Christopher Pearce.