ROCKFORD (WIFR) -- On September 2, 2010, the State Line Area Narcotics Team (SLANT) in conjunction with the Rockford and Belvidere Police Departments and the Drug Enforcement Administration arrested two Rockford residents after a four month investigation into cocaine sales and distribution in the greater Rockford area.

Miguel A. Lozano, AKA “Chino”, 26, 1000 block of Esmond St., Rockford, was arrested and charged with three counts of Delivery of a Controlled Substance (class X felony).

Luis A. Ferrer-Ruiz, 26, 1200 block of 10th St., Rockford, was arrested and charged with Delivery of a Controlled Substance (class X felony).

Class X felonies are punishable by 6 to 30 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections.

Seized as a result of the arrest was 306 grams of cocaine, 30 grams of cannabis, $639 and two vehicles.

Lozano and Ferrer-Ruiz were incarcerated at the Winnebago County jail.

These charges are only an accusation and the defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

The State Line Area Narcotics Team is made up of officers from the Freeport, Loves Park, Rockford, and Monroe, Wis., police departments, the Stephenson County and Green County, Wis., sheriff’s departments and the Illinois State Police.