
Investigators found a suitcase holding meth and heroin in a car trunk when they arrested Jose Mauro Mota in 2011. (Credit: Drug Enforcement Administration)Investigators found a suitcase holding meth and heroin in a car trunk when they arrested Jose Mauro Mota in 2011. (Credit: Drug Enforcement Administration)
Jose Mauro Mota, believed to be a major supplier of narcotics on the Eastern seaboard, was arrested in 2011 at the Vince Lombardi service area off I-95 in New Jersey. Narcotics agents, conducting a wiretap investigation, watched the transfer of a $6.5 million shipment of 11 pounds of heroin and 51 pounds of methamphetamine from a tractor-trailer to Mota’s car.
Mota changed his plea to guilty in the middle of his trial in April, WCBS 880’s Irene Cornell reported.