Puerto Rico Police announced on Tuesday a series of arrests for controlled substances, weapons law violations, domestic violence and property crimes from operations in several towns. In Ponce, Drugs Division agents arrested Arnaldo Ortiz Zapata, 32, and Maritza Ramírez Rentas, 58, at the Arístides Chavier housing project; Ortiz Zapata was seized with 12 bags of cocaine, 34 of crack, 86 packets of heroin, four units of Suboxone and $64, and Ramírez Rentas with crack.
The cases will be consulted with the Ponce prosecutor’s office. In Añasco, Mayagüez Drugs Division agents arrested Bryan Onell Vázquez Portugués, 23, and Jarelys Troche Soto, 26, in a raid on a home in Hatillo ward, seizing 28 bags of crack, marijuana, 22 pills pending analysis and $11,053; two minors were in the home and the Department of the Family was notified, and the pair were cited for Tuesday.
In Bayamón’s La Alhambra project, Carlos Vázquez López, 32, and Richard Andino Bonilla, 25, were arrested; Vázquez López was seized with 11 bags of cocaine, eight crack capsules and a packet of heroin, Andino Bonilla with 26 bags of cocaine, two bags and three clumps of marijuana, 160 heroin packets and $979. In Caguas’s Morales neighborhood, Carlos Giovanni Vélez Reyes and Jean Raymond Rosario Zeyuela, both 27, were arrested; Vélez Reyes was seized with 35 crack capsules, six bags of marijuana, three of cocaine and $199, Rosario Zeyuela with seven bags of marijuana, five crack capsules and $25.