Novi Heroin Bust Yields 40 Kilograms

NOVI, MI — Three Novi men were arrested Monday and charged with possession of 40 kilograms of heroin. Andre Lee Scott, Adolfo Verdugo Lopez and Manuel Arnulfo Barajas were arrested in a condominium in the 42000 block of Joyce Lane at about 9:30 a.m. by members of the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration and Oakland County Narcotics Investigation Team.

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"On a table in the dining room in the sparsely furnished condo they found narcotics “in plain view”: eight brick-shaped objects believed to be 11 kilograms of heroin, said Michael Reamer, a special agent with the DEA.

The investigators also found more brick-shaped objects in a bedroom closet, and a small amount in a car rented by Scott after a search by a police dog, Reamer wrote in a criminal complaint. They also found bulk U.S. currency," the Detroit News reported.

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