PF man caught in Nevada drug bust

A Post Falls man was arrested last week in a drug ring bust in Mesquite, Nevada.

Benjamin Graff, 32, is charged with two counts of sale of a controlled substance and one count of conspiracy to sell a controlled substance.

Graff was arrested after narcotics task force detectives witnessed Graff allegedly conducting two drug deals. The first narcotics transaction took place July 3 in a hotel parking lot in Mesquite.

The following day, July 4, detectives observed Graff conduct a second drug deal at another location in Mesquite, and then get into a vehicle occupied by two associates, identified as Weston Johnson and Lainey Webb.

Detectives conducted a traffic stop of the vehicle and obtained written consent to search the vehicle for controlled substances. During the traffic stop, Johnson and Webb were found to be in possession of United States currency associated with the second narcotics transaction conducted by Graff.

Johnson, 29, of Cedar City, Utah, and Webb, 22, also of Cedar City, were each arrested and charged with one count sale of a controlled substance and one count conspiracy to sale a controlled substance.

The Southern Area Interdiction Narcotics Team is a joint Narcotics Task Force, consisting of the Nevada Department of Public Safety-Investigation Division and the Mesquite Police Department.