A drug ring that court documents say had a "stash house" in Columbia Tusculum was connected to a Mexican drug cartel and was responsible for shipping at least 10 kilograms of heroin, fentanyl, cocaine and meth into the Cincinnati area, officials said.

Late Friday, Cincinnati police announced the arrests of 11 people they say were involved in the drug ring. Two more people face charges in the case but were not in custody Friday.

Lt. Steve Saunders called it a major bust that will save lives by getting drugs – including the highly potent synthetic opiate, fentanyl – off the streets. As little as 2 milligrams of fentanyl is enough to kill someone.

Investigators found approximately 3 kilos of heroin mixed with fentanyl, 3 kilos of cocaine and 4 kilos of methamphetamine. The street value is estimated to be half a million dollars.

In addition to the drugs, investigators seized drug packaging tools, four vehicles, four guns and about $140,000 in cash.

The first of two rounds of raids took place on Sept. 17. When police searched the alleged stash house, which was on Hoge Street, they found approximately 1 kilo of a heroin-fentanyl mixture as well as several empty kilogram-sized “plastic wrappings,” according to court documents. Officials believe the plastic previously contained a heroin-fentanyl mix.

A kilogram is equal to approximately 2.2 pounds.

Police arrested 29-year-old Cesar Diaz-Gomez at the home. Diaz-Gomez told officers, documents say, that he was in the U.S. illegally and had only been in Cincinnati a few months.

Although he is unemployed, the documents say he had more than $2,200, which he said he brought with him from Chicago.

The same day as the raid on Hoge Street, officers also raided another Columbia Tusculum house, about a block away, in the 600 block of Rushton Road.

A search of that house uncovered $15,000 in cash and a hydraulic kilogram press machine, court documents say. A kilogram-sized brick, the documents say, gives “the appearance that it contains a higher purity level” – meaning it has not been mixed with a cutting agent.

Laquintee Bloodworth, 40, was arrested at the home. He had keys to the front door of the Hoge Street house, court documents say.

The documents also describe a third raid on Sept. 17, in the 1400 block of Beaverton Avenue in Roselawn. There, investigators seized about 3.75 kilos of “methamphetamine mixtures,” about 13 grams of “cocaine mixture” and more than 2 kilos of various mixtures containing fentanyl.

The Roselawn home was known as the "clubhouse," court documents say. One of the 13 charged, 42-year-old Charles Oden allegedly directed 61-year-old Roy Jackson to make several deliveries to the clubhouse over a four-day period beginning Sept. 11.

Investigators tracked members' movements and phone conversations, details of which tell of a booming enterprise.

Also charged in the case are: Oden's girlfriend, Enya Kirksey, 41; James Carter, 50; Savalas Mills, 42; Gregory Moore, 27; Jan Carlos Murrell, 49; Roy Jackson, 61; Anthony Phillips, 45; and Michael Stallworth, 46.

All face drug charges in federal court in Cincinnati.

Oden and Kirksey are charged with maintaining a drug-involved premises in the 2100 block of Clara Street in South Fairmount. Documents say Phillips possessed powdered sugar, used as a cutting agent, press plates, masks, gloves and plastic packaging.

In addition to Cincinnati police, the investigation included the DEA, Ohio State Highway Patrol and the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

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