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Local charges
dropped in heroin bust |
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April 2, 2012 |
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Hector Rivera |
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Barbara
Willoughby |
At the request of the Boundary County
prosecutors office, local drug trafficking
charges stemming from a Sunday morning traffic
stop on U.S. 95 at Alderson Lane during which
the biggest heroin bust in Idaho history went
down have been dismissed.
Federal indictments were instead leveled against
Hector Rivera, 34, and Barbara Willoughby, 22,
who were stopped by Bonners Ferry Police Officer
Willie Cowell at about 7 a.m. March 18 in a
rented truck out of Los Angeles, California,
that didn't have a license plate. During the
stop, Cowell and sheriffs deputies, using a drug
dog, discovered 8.1 pounds of heroin in a
backback inside the vehicle.
Both were taken into custody and held on
$250,000 bond.
With the federal indictment, county prosecutor
Jack Douglas recommended dismissal of the local
charges in the interest of saving Boundary
County the expense of prosecution and housing. |
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