Crime & Safety
3 Charged in Waukesha Drug Bust
Suspects sold undercover officer and informant two pounds of marijuana, according to criminal complaint.
Three Milwaukee men are facing drug charges after they were caught selling two pounds of marijuana to an undercover Waukesha police officer and a police informant, according to a criminal complaint.
Rafael Aguilera Contreras, 23, Luis Fuentes Rojas, 37, and Aaron Ordonez Montoya, 33, were each charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court on Thursday with one count of manufacture and deliver of more than 200 grams of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. If convicted, they each face up to six years in prison.
Montoya is also charged with one count of maintaining a drug trafficking place, which could add another 3 ½ years to his sentence if convicted.
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According to the criminal complaint:
Police made arrangements through and informant to purchase two pounds of marijuana from Rojas on Tuesday. They agreed to meet in the parking lot of a Waukesha business.
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Police later saw Rojas and Contreras at the store and met up with them in a car registered to Montoya. The deal was completed and after the officer left the car the Waukesha Tactical Unit descended on the car and arrested the men.
Contreras admitted to officers he isn’t a legal citizen of the U.S., but it was the first time he sold drugs.
