Nine law-enforcement agencies combined manpower and intelligence recently to arrest three Lincoln County men in an investigation that netted methamphetamine, cash and firearms.

Don Lyle, Stuart Pattie and Jesus Heriberto Ramirez-Soto were arrested April 13. Officers seized about two pounds of methamphetamine, 24 weapons, $6,460, two vehicles and several hundred rounds of assorted ammunition.

The arrests were made in Havre, according to the Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The three are known to Lincoln County law-enforcement agencies.  

While Lyle and Pattie are U.S. citizens, Ramirez-Soto is a Mexican national who also goes by the name Eddie Rodriguez.

Lyle, Pattie and Ramirez-Soto made their initial appearance before a federal magistrate in Great Falls on Monday, according to Carl Rusnok, the communications director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in New York City.

The three remain in custody on charges of drug possession with intent to distribute and conspiracy to possess a controlled substance.