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Harlingen thrift store owner, brother jailed in crack cocaine scheme
Posted: 12.11.2012 at 5:55 PM
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A Harlingen thrift store owner and his brother are behind bars after being accused in a crack cocaine dealing scheme.

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents arrested 39-year-old Adan Cantu at his home off El Rosal West in Bluetown on Monday.

Agents also arrested his 36-year-old brother Dagoberto Cantu as this Post Avenue home in Corpus Chirsti.

A federal indictment filed in McAllen on back in November but unsealed on Tuesday accuses them of distributing crack cocaine in the Rio Grande Valley and South Texas.

Investigators allegedly found a small amount of cocaine and a scale a thrift store owned by Adan Cantu off Commerce Street in Harlingen.

Dagoberto Cantu appeared in federal court in Corpus Christi on Monday while Adan Cantu appeared in Brownvsille on Tuesday.

The two brothers are expected to go to trial in McAllen.

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