PULSE POINTS
WHAT HAPPENED: Over 300 pounds of methamphetamine were seized from a storage facility in Norcross, Georgia.
WHO WAS INVOLVED: Marco Cueto-Rosales, 47, and federal agents from the DEA, along with a Gwinnett County police K-9 unit.
WHEN & WHERE: October 10, 2025, at a storage unit in Norcross, Georgia.
KEY QUOTE: “Although the Mexican cartels stockpile and peddle their poison in our community, the quick actions of law enforcement thankfully took these deadly drugs off the streets,” said U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg.
IMPACT: Federal agents removed over 325 pounds of methamphetamine from circulation, and Cueto-Rosales faces federal drug charges.
IN FULL
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced that a federal operation successfully seized 300 pounds of methamphetamine at a storage facility in Norcross, Georgia—a suburb of Atlanta—last month. According to U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents were monitoring the storage facility when they observed Marco Cueto-Rosales, 47, entering one of the units in early October.
Subsequently, a Gwinnett County police K-9 unit was used to search the facility and “alerted to the odor of narcotics emanating” from the unit Cueto-Rosales was observed entering. The unit was searched by federal agents, and upon entering, they uncovered over 325 pounds of methamphetamine.
Cueto-Rosales was subsequently arrested and charged with conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine.
Hertzberg also revealed that Cueto-Rosales was unlawfully present in the United States. He remarked, “Although the Mexican cartels stockpile and peddle their poison in our community, the quick actions of law enforcement thankfully took these deadly drugs off the streets.”
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