Members of the Hampden County Narcotics Task Force arrested three Holyoke residents after it executed a search warrant at a home at 392 Pleasant St. in Holyoke Thursday.
The task force seized approximately 844 grams of heroin and more than 260 grams of powdered cocaine. The heroin had been divided into 34,150 individual bags for sale on the streets.
Holyoke Police and the Hampden District Attorney’s Office said in a release that Francisco Torres, 30, Sebastian Rosario, 23, and Nashalee Arocho, 21, were all taken into custody at or near the Pleasant Street home following an ongoing investigation.
The arrested unfolded as a surveillance unit saw Torres leave the Pleasant Street address in a vehicle. He was stopped not far away and his car searched.
Investigators found 100 individual bags of heroin and just under 10 grams of powdered cocaine in the vehicle.
At the same time as Torres was detained, a search unit swept into the Pleasant Street home and detained Rosario and Arocho.
Searchers were able to find just under 900 grams — nearly two pounds — of heroin and nearly half a pound of cocaine in the home, as well as $34,645 in cash.
Besides Holyoke Police officers, members of the Hampden D.A.’s SAFE Unit, the Western Mass. Gang Unit, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, Massachusetts State Police’s Commonwealth Interstate Narcotics Reduction Enforcement Unit and the Special Tactical Operations Teams helped carry out the search warrants.
The three were charged with trafficking of a Class A drug over 200 grams and trafficking of a Class B drug over 200 grams.
They were scheduled to be arraigned in Holyoke District Court.
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