PAHRUMP, NV (FOX5) -
Authorities in Pahrump arrested an alleged drug trafficker who was found with about 105 grams of methamphetamine.
Rogue "Rocky" Lara-Aguilar was detained Tuesday after a tip from an informant, the Nye County Sheriff's Office said.
According to deputies, authorities were told Lara-Aguilar was on his way to Pahrump to supply methamphetamine to the informant posing as a dealer.
After Lara-Aguilar was detained during a traffic stop, deputies found 13 individually packaged bags of methamphetamine, according to the sheriff's office.
Deputies also found a number of contacts to possible Pahrump drug dealers on the suspect's seized phone.
Deputies were told by Lara-Aguilar that he is in the country illegally.
He was booked into the Nye County Detention Center on counts of trafficking methamphetamine.
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