- Three men were indicted in Utah for trafficking a combined 230 pounds of narcotics.
- In West Valley City, around 240,000 fentanyl pills were located hidden within wooden furniture panels, police say.
- More than 176 pounds of methamphetamine were seized during a traffic stop in southern Utah.
SALT LAKE CITY — Three men have been indicted in Utah federal court for allegedly trafficking a combined total of more than 230 pounds of narcotics in three separate cases, including fentanyl pills that were hidden in furniture panels.
In one case, Christian Salinas-Santiago, 30, of Los Angeles, was indicted on May 6 for distribution of heroin. A trial is scheduled for July.
In January, Salt Lake police were investigating a Mexico-based narcotics trafficker with whom an undercover Homeland Security Investigations agent was communicating about drug shipments coming to Utah, according to the federal complaint. The undercover agent was contacted on April 21 by the drug trafficker to pick up a kilogram of heroin in Midvale…