ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Two men accused of trafficking nearly 1,600 pounds of methamphetamine in blackberry shipments are facing federal charges.

FBI Atlanta said 419 kilos were found at a home on Custer Avenue SE “in a shipment of blackberries inside a refrigerated truck parked outside the home" on Black Friday.

Another 300 kilos of meth were found in another refrigerated box truck outside of a business on McEver Road in Hall County.

Both shipments are “believed to have been brought into the United States from Mexico.”

Nelsonen Sorto, 36, and Gerardo Solorio-Alvarado, 44, were charged with trafficking methamphetamine in connection to the Atlanta bust.

Solorio-Alvarado was also charged with conspiring to commit the crime, FBI Atlanta said.

Solorio-Alvarado is an undocumented immigrant with a criminal history relating to drug trafficking, the FBI said. Sorto was previously convicted of methamphetamine possession and was on probation at the time of his most recent arrest.

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Both men are currently in state custody without bail and are expected to be transferred to federal court.

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