Tyler Man Busted in North Carolina
Posted/updated on: October 20, 2016 at 2:46 pm
ANGIER, NC — A Tyler man is in custody in North Carolina on drug charges. Pineda Franky Garcia, 37, remains in jail under a $1 million bond. Sheriff’s deputies were responding to a complaint when they uncovered 50 pounds of liquid methamphetamine with a value of $4.5 million. According to the Daily Record in Dunn, North Carolina, investigators say the drug would have been crystallized before it could be sold. They estimate the liquid would have transformed into around 30 pounds of crystal meth. Garcia has been charged with felony trafficking in methamphetamine and felony manufacturing methamphetamine.
