Calif. men caught in local drug bust

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Two California men were hauled off to federal jail Friday after drug agents raided their motor home and storage facility and found Home Depot boxes that contained something other than household goods.

Salvador Rivero, 25, and Alberto Ledesma of Santa Ana, Calif., were taken into custody at an undisclosed location by agents of the Fayette County Drug Suppression Task Force and the Drug Enforcement Agency Group 1 out of Atlanta, officials said. One of the pair was armed, authorities said.

Rivero and Ledesma were arrested after more than 600 pounds of marijuana and about $80,000 to $90,000 in cash were found in their possession, officials said.

"On Wednesday, we received a tip from the Los Angeles Police Department that a motor home was in the metro area at a hotel," said Capt. Mike Pruitt, supervising agent in charge. "The motor home, they believed through their investigation, would be delivering and picking up a quantity of drugs and money, so we were able to go out and locate the motor home at a hotel parking lot."

Agents set up a surveillance from 5:30 a.m. Thursday until they spotted the alleged drug offenders.

"We were on a 21-hour surveillance of the vehicle, which ultimately led us to the location of where they were picking this stuff up that was going to go

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