Two Colombian men, one of whom is a retired police officer, were held by federal marshals yesterday, accused of trying to deal 22 pounds of cocaine in Philadelphia last week.
William Lozada, 41, and Augustine Gonzalez, 36, both of Cali, Colombia, were arrested early Friday in the 4600 block of North Fifth Street, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration announced yesterday.
The men were arrested after driving a box filled with 10 plastic packets of cocaine from New York to Philadelphia, DEA officials said. The bricks of cocaine, covered with tape marked with the word "soccer," had a retail value of more than $1 million, the officials said.
