On Friday, June 1, just before 7:00 p.m., a Pinal County Sheriff’s deputy was conducting traffic enforcement on Interstate 10 when he noticed a 2015 Chrysler with extremely dark tinted windows. The deputy pulled the car over. The driver, Araceli Gonzalez, 29, of Tucson and the passenger, Danett Ruiz, 28, of Nogales were the only two individuals inside the vehicle.
A search of the vehicle was conducted, and the deputy found 2 pounds and 14.75 ounces of Heroin in a pink bubble wrap mailing package under the passenger compartment. Deputies also found $6,102.00 in cash inside the vehicle.
Gonzalez and Ruiz were both placed under arrest and transported to the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office Adult Detention Center in Florence, Arizona where they were booked in for possession of narcotics, possession of narcotics for sale, and transportation of narcotics for sale.