3 arrests in Austintown in interstate cocaine operation investigated since last March

AUSTINTOWN

U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency officers arrested three people suspected of bringing cocaine from Texas to Ohio at an Austintown home Tuesday.

During the arrest, they found four children in the Notre Dame Drive home, who were placed in the custody of Mahoning County Children Services.

The DEA agents arrested Bruce Cuevas Sr., 61, Jose G. Martinez, 41, and Lilia Comacho-Jimenez, 31. They are all charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine.

They were arraigned Tuesday afternoon before Magistrate George J. Limbert in the Thomas D. Lambros Federal Building and Courthouse, 125 Market St.

Comacho-Jimenez was released on a $20,000 unsecured bond, and Cuevas will be released on a $20,000 unsecured bond once a land-line is set up at his home for house arrest.

Martinez was ordered to be detained and remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshal, pending further hearings.

All three will have another hearing Friday afternoon.

This arrest follows an investigation that began in March 2015.

Read more about that effort in Wednesday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.