The Kerr County Sheriff’s joined 15 local, state and federal agencies to break up an alleged drug trafficking operation based in Kerr County.
The multi-agency task force said it seized more than 120 pounds of methamphetamine, 57 pounds of cocaine, and about a pound of marijuana. The sheriff’s office said the street value of the drugs was worth $8 million.
“Our office continues to prove that collaboration and professional skill deliver big results,” Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said. “Disrupting these dangerous international criminal organizations takes all hands working in concert. This operation took months of careful planning and coordination, and the entire team worked together seamlessly,” said Sheriff Larry Leitha.
The operation led to the arrest of 11 people on charges ranging from suspicion of possession of controlled substances, human smuggling, probation violation, immigration violations and outstanding warrants.
Arrested were:
- Emiliano Tomas Montano, 25, of The Colony, Texas, two counts of smuggling of persons.
- Derrick Lamont McDaniel, 24, of San Antonio, Texas, possession of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana.
- David Ezequiel Cortinas, 27, of San Antonio, Texas, on an outstanding Bexar County warrant.
- Robert Davon Sheffield, 25, of San Antonio, Texas, possession of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana.
- Matthew Ramone Sheffield, 26, of San Antonio, Texas, possession of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana.
- Juan Jose Lopez-Jamie, 24, manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance and an immigration violation.
- Jesus Alfredo Cabral-Recendez, 22, of Comfort, Texas, manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance and unlawfully carrying a weapon.
- Alberto De Leon, Jr., 30, possession of a controlled substance.
- Alyssa Schneider, 33, possession of a controlled substance.
- Jesus Elijah Garcia Saldivar, of San Juan Bautista, Calif., evading arrest with vehicle.
- Aislynn Pamela Martin, of Tyler, for violation of probation on manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Participating in the operation was Kendall County Sheriff’s Office, Gillespie County Sheriff’s Office, U.S. Border Patrol, Homeland Security Investigations, Texas Department of Public Safety Analysts, DPS K9, DPS CID, North Texas Criminal Interdiction Unit, 100th District Attorney’s Office, Carson County Sheriff’s Office, Fayette County Sheriff’s Office, Wharton Police Department, Guadalupe County Sheriff’s Office, Collin County Sheriff’s Office and the 32nd District Attorney’s Office.
