Two Schuylkill County men arrested in a multiagency drug-trafficking investigation last month were moving marijuana, methamphetamine, fentanyl and cocaine through Coaldale.

Jose Nieves-Feliciano, 45, of First Street, Coaldale, and Cruz Rodriguez, 31, of Water Street in New Philadelphia, sold illegal drugs to a confidential informant during the investigation that began in April, according to arrest papers.

Agents from the state Attorney General’s Drug Task Force and Tamaqua police executed one of two search warrants at the First Street home in late August, resulting in the arrests.

According to court papers, the confidential informant was familiar with a man called “June,” who was trafficking methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana and heroin/fentanyl and who lived in New Philadelphia.

The informant identified the man as Rodriguez through a photograph, and then conducted controlled buys of 57.79 grams of marijuana and 226.46 grams of methamphetamine, court papers said.

During the buys, Rodriguez picked up the informant in the 100 block of First Street in Coaldale and drove to a mini-mart on East Water Street in the borough to buy a digital scale.

They returned to the home on First Street, where they weighed about two pounds of methamphetamine into quarter pound quantities, and Rodriguez gave the informant a half-pound of the drug when they returned to the vehicle, court papers said.

The remaining pound and a half of methamphetamine was left in plain view inside the vehicle when the informant was dropped off on Water Street in Lansford, court papers said.

The investigation into Rodriguez led the task force members to Nieves-Feliciano, who lived on First Street, along with Rodriguez’s aunt and another man, court papers said.

Task force officers had surveillance on Rodriguez on Aug. 17, watching him leave his New Philadelphia home headed toward Coaldale and Lansford, court papers said. While driving, he called the informant, asking to meet in area of 122 First St. in Coaldale, where Nieves-Feliciano gave the informant a Newport cigarette pack with 14.8 grams of fentanyl and 6 grams of cocaine from Rodriguez, court papers said.

The informant called Rodriguez from Nieves-Feliciano’s phone and Rodriguez wanted $1,200 for the drugs, court papers said.

Nieves-Feliciano was located and detained during the search of the First Street home in late August.

Both Rodriguez and Nieves-Feliciano remain in the Schuylkill County prison in lieu of $100,000 bail. A preliminary hearing on felony drug trafficking and related charges is scheduled Sept. 23 before Tamaqua District Judge Stephen Bayer.