PORT ANGELES — Authorities have arrested two men suspected of dealing heroin.
The Olympic Peninsula Narcotics Enforcement Team booked Kevin Scott Carter, 52, and Gene Robert Cuello, 44, into Clallam County jail Friday for investigation of delivery of a controlled substance and committing the offense while within 1,000 feet of a school.
Carter also was being held for investigation of unlawful use of a building for drug purposes — liability of owner or manager.
At home
They were arrested at about 8:30 a.m. at their homes in the 200 block of West Seventh Street, said Detective Jason Viada, narcotics team supervisor for the Port Angeles Police Department.
Heroin was found, Viada said, but he would not say how much.
Both remained in the Clallam County jail, with no bond set, on Saturday.
“OPNET detectives conducted an investigation lasting several months where heroin was purchased on multiple occasions from people in Carter’s home on Seventh Street,” Viada said.
Day care near
“This investigation was given priority over other investigations in part because the home is near both a day care and a preschool in Port Angeles,” he added.
About 20 officers from OPNET member agencies — including Port Angeles police, Clallam the County Sheriff’s Office, Customs and Border Protection, Homeland Security Investigations, the Sequim Police Department and the State Patrol — participated in the arrests.