November 13,
2008
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Public Information Officer:
Heather Benjamin, MCSO
Phone: (970) 244-3929
Cell: (970) 986-0950
WESTERN COLORADO DRUG TASK FORCE
OVER THREE POUNDS OF METH SEIZED
Interstate interdiction nets meth and cocaine
Email:
[email protected]
The Western Colorado
Drug Task Force is a
partnership established
in the early 1980’s
between the U.S. Department of Justice
Drug Enforcement
Administration, the
Grand Junction Police
Department and the
Mesa County Sheriff’s
Office. The Task
Force is designed to
fight the battles of
drugs on the frontlines
and other crimes that
go with dealing and
using drugs. Grand
Junction Police Chief
Bill Gardner and Mesa
County Sheriff Stan
Hilkey agree that this
Task Force is effective
and nationally competitive in the law enforcement field when
it comes to knowledge,
experience and team
work. The Drug Task
Force provides a refined level of service
to the law abiding citizens of Mesa County
and across the Western
Slope.
MESA COUNTY, CO – Before the sun came up this morning, officers with
the Drug Task Force stopped a vehicle on Interstate 70, just East of the
Utah border. Officers found one ounce of cocaine and more than three
pounds of methamphetamine hidden in the dash of the vehicle. An
Aurora man, 48-year-old Federico Gonzales-Pacheco, was ticketed for
driving without a valid license and after a search of his vehicle the drugs
were located in the hidden compartment.
Gonzales-Pacheco was taken to the Mesa County Detention Facility on
charges associated with the drugs, where he remains with no bond tonight. An arrest affidavit and a booking photo of him are attached.
Bond updates can be accessed via the Sheriff’s Office website:
www.sheriff.mesacounty.us, click on ‘Inmate Inquiry System’.
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Western Colorado Drug Task
Force Leadership:
Lt. David Holdren, MCSO
Sgt. Gary Marak, GJPD
RAC, Karen Flowers, DEA
Mesa County Sheriff’s Office
215 Rice Street
Grand Junction, CO 81501
(970) 244-3500
www.sheriff.mesacounty.us
Grand Junction Police Department
625 Ute Avenue
Grand Junction, CO 81501
(970) 244-3555
www.gjcity.org