Two Reading men are behind bars in connection with a large scale drug operation.<\/p>\n
Federal, county and local authorities made the arrests in York on Wednesday. Berks County District Attorney John Adams said the men will be arraigned in Berks County.<\/p>\n
“We executed numerous search warrants in the city of Reading and other search warrants were executed in other locations in York,” said Adams.<\/p>\n
Jose Avila, of Buttonwood Street, and Ruben Morales, of Mulberry Street, are behind bars.<\/p>\n
“This is a clearly a group of individuals who were distributing large amounts of cocaine, not just into Reading area, but also in areas such as York” said Adams.<\/p>\n
York city police, Berks County detectives, and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said they seized cocaine with a street value of $400,000, along with $70,000 and several guns: seven handguns, an AK-47, and an AR-15.<\/p>\n
Adams said the investigation will continue and more arrests are expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Reading men are behind bars in connection with a large scale drug operation. Federal, county and local…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[279,139,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-200233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks","tag-news","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}