From The Tribune staff reports
LEEDS — The St. Clair County Drug Enforcement Unit and the Leeds Police Department, with the assistance of the St. Clair County Sheriff’s Office K9 Madonna, stopped a suspected drug trafficker from California.
Alejandro Lopez, 36, of Santa Anna, California, was arrested in Pell City and was charged with drug trafficking. Drug detectives said they seized around 12 pounds of heroin.
Lopez is being held in the St. Clair County Jail in Ashville on a $1.5 million bond.