Two Rifle residents were arrested April 22 in Montgomery County, Pa., after local authorities nabbed them on the receiving end of an alleged cross-country methamphetamine trafficking operation.
James Michael Handzus, 51, and Tamara Louise Vincent, 41, are charged with flying a single-engine light plane to Las Vegas to purchase at least one pound of crystal methamphetamine, and then flying to Montgomery County to sell the drug, according to Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman.
Montgomery County law enforcement was tipped off in March about an alleged crystal meth importing operation, and a joint agency investigation during the past month identified Handzus as the owner and pilot of a 1959 Piper Comanche being used for the drug smuggling.
The bust unfolded last week when Handzus and Vincent arrived in the rural Pennsylvania area just northwest of Philadelphia.
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