The search for a fugitive led detectives to a vast Bronx drug mill, where traffickers reportedly concealed piles of cash as well as 25 pounds of cocaine and fentanyl.
According to federal prosecutors and law enforcement sources, the US Marshals NY / NJ Regional Fugitive Task Force moved in on Aracely Ortiz, 43, a fraud suspect from New Jersey, at a sixth-floor flat on Kappock Street in Spuyten Duyvil, somewhere about six a.m. on Wednesday.
Upon conducting a search of the two-bedroom residence, the New York Drug Enforcement Task Force discovered an enormous stash of drugs and equipment used for manufacturing drugs. Authorities claim that two bricks of cocaine and three bricks of fentanyl were hidden in a safe inside a bedroom closet. In addition, six more bricks of cocaine, three jars of fentanyl, a money counter, and ten more packages of an unidentified narcotic were discovered, according to task force members.
The special narcotics prosecutor has accused Ortiz, the subject of the original arrest warrant, and alleged accomplice Jonathan Corona with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first and third degrees.
