MONROE, N.C. — Authorities seized 100 kilograms of cocaine worth more than $3 million in Monroe last week.
The Drug Enforcement Agency started a surveillance operation at a house on Brighton Brooke Drive in east Charlotte Monday morning.
Agents followed Edwin Lobato Aguirre and Luis Alberto Medino-Flores to The Home Depot on South Boulevard, where they met two others in a U-Haul, according to court documents.
(Medino-Flores and Aguirre)
The group drove to a Monroe home where agents watched the suspects unpack boxes labeled for fruit and candles, but they actually contained cocaine.
Police moved in to make the arrests and court documents said Medino-Flores admitted he was contacted by someone in Mexico about the shipment and was promised a house and property in Mexico if he allowed the cocaine to be stored at his home.
Another suspect, Maria Esther Garcia, was also connected to the case, authorities said.
Later, a judge agreed to dismiss charges against Garcia.
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