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Hotel guests busted for guns, meth and opioids

By Bill Moss, Published: May 22, 2017

Hendersonville police charged two hotel guests with drug and weapons felonies after hotel employees smelled marijuana smoke coming from their room.

Hendersonville officers were dispatched to the Cascades Mountain Resort at 201 Sugarloaf Road at 7 p.m. Sunday. They met with Cascades employees who complained of a strong odor of pot smoke coming from a room in the hotel.
Officers made contact with the occupants and gained access to the room. Officers seized two handguns, 217 grams of methamphetamine, 26 doses of oxycodone and 2.86 grams of pot.

Arrested at the scene were Felix Garcia Jr., 34, of Immokalee, Fla., and Martin Santos Garza, 21, of Asheville.

Garcia is charged with trafficking in methamphetamine, maintaining a dwelling for the purposes of controlled substances, possession of schedule II controlled substance (oxycodone) possession of a firearm by a felon, possession of marijuana and two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia. He was jailed on a $62,000 bond.

Garza is charged with trafficking in methamphetamine, maintaining a dwelling for the purposes of controlled substances, possession of schedule II controlled substance (oxycodone), possession of marijuana and two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia. He was jailed on a $57,000 bond.