Two men are in the Weld County Jail after police say they found the pair with more than 73 grams of methamphetamine during a traffic stop in Greeley earlier this month.
Police arrested 18-year-old Hisidro Temoxtle-Calvez and 39-year-old Aaron Garcia-Galvez on April 8 on suspicion of intent to distribute after finding 73.9 grams of meth, divided into 40 small bags for sale, according to affidavits for their arrest. Police say they also found 15 counterfeit M30 pills likely containing fentanyl.
Temoxtle-Calvez was arrested in February in a similar incident, according to an affidavit, when police found over 11 grams of meth in a van he was driving. He was pulled over in an alley in the 400 block of Ninth Avenue in Greeley for driving without headlights.
Just before 11 p.m. April 8, Greeley police saw a brown van turn off 16th Avenue into an alley between Eighth and Ninth Streets without signaling.
Police say that when they approached the vehicle, a passenger — later identified as Garcia-Galvez — got out of the front passenger seat holding an orange bag and red water bottle. The officer asked him to get back in the vehicle, instead asking the driver — who the officer knew to be Temoxtle-Calvez — to step out instead.
The officer recognized Temoxtle-Calvez from previous contacts and knew him to often be armed, so the officer asked him to step out of the vehicle and frisked him, finding a glass pipe in his pocket.
Officers deployed a K-9 unit, which indicated positive to narcotics in the front of the van, according to the affidavit.
Hanging under the front passenger seat, police found a black box with suspected meth split into individual bags. The 23.4 grams of meth was split into 22 bags containing 0.7 grams, seven bags containing 0.8 grams and four bags containing 0.6 grams, according to the affidavit.
Police say they also found 15 counterfeit M30 pills likely containing fentanyl and a small scale. Neither man faces charges for the suspected fentanyl.
In the red water bottle, police found 41.3 grams of meth and several small empty bags matching the others, according to the affidavit.
In the orange bag Garcia-Galvez was holding, police say, they found another 4.9 grams of meth, split into five bags of 0.7 grams, and two bags containing 0.8 grams and 0.6 grams, respectively. They also found two pipes and a bong, as well as a pair of Colorado license plates and a piece of notebook paper that appeared to be from a ledger, according to the affidavit.
Finally, police say, they found two more small bags containing a total of 4.3 grams of meth on Garcia-Galvez when they searched him.
Temoxtle-Calvez said the van belonged to his father and that nothing inside belonged to him, according to the affidavit. Police say they found paperwork with Temoxtle-Calvez’s name in the glove box, and the officer remembered contacting Temoxtle-Calvez in the same van at the previous traffic stop.
Garcia-Galvez also denied knowing anything about the drugs, according to the affidavit.
Police took Temoxtle-Calvez to the Weld County Jail, and while booking him, a deputy found another small bag in his sock containing 0.3 grams of meth. Police say the bag in his sock matched all the bags found in the van.
Garcia-Galvez was booked without incident.
Police say that during Temoxtle-Calvez’s February arrest, they found him — along with a different man — with several individually packaged bags of meth. The two were originally charged with suspected intent to distribute, but the charges were later reduced to possession.
Both Temoxtle-Calvez and Garcia-Galvez have hearings on advisement at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at Weld District Court.
