NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – Glenn County officials on Friday arrested two Bay Area men who allegedly were found to be in possession of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of methamphetamine.
Marcos Miguel Rodriguez-Villanueva, 20, of Richmond and Carlos Alejandro Mendoza-Villanueva, 39, of Novato were arrested by Glenn Interagency Narcotics Task Force agents.
The task force reported that it responded to a request from the California Highway Patrol at 11 a.m. Friday after receiving a request from CHP for a possible drug trafficking case.
Glenn Interagency Narcotics Task Force agents took over the investigation and seized 13.1 pounds of crystal methamphetamine with a street value of approximately $200,000 along with $2,475 in cash, and arrested the two men.
Rodriguez-Villanueva and Mendoza-Villanueva were booked into the Glenn County Jail. Bail was set at $600,000 for each of them, the task force reported.
The investigation is ongoing, task force officials said.