By Stan Donaldson
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
CLEVELAND — Cleveland police announced Tuesday that they made the largest drug bust in the city's history and recovered more than 3,000 pounds of marijuana from a tractor-trailer.
Police arrested eight men, two from suburban Cleveland, on suspicion of drug trafficking. The other six are believed to be from a Mexican gang on the West Coast, police Lt. Thomas Stacho said.
That arrest led them to a trailer Sunday in the 19700 block of South Miles Road in Warrensville Heights. It held packages of dry soup and bales of pot with an estimated street value of $3 million.
Besides marijuana, police seized $386,000 in cash, seven firearms and eight vehicles. Police in Highland Heights and Warrensville Heights assisted Cleveland narcotics officers, who worked under a grant through the Domestic Highway Enforcement program.
The bust is the largest in the city's history, said Police Chief Ned McGrath. Along with law enforcement, the city must address the demand for drugs through social service, drug treatment programs and job opportunities for teens, he said.
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