Police arrest 2 during one of the largest-ever heroin seizures in southeastern Idaho

Idaho State Police detectives arrested 2 Pocatello residents on charges of Trafficking Heroin Thursday around 11:45 a.m. for one of the largest-ever heroin seizures in southeastern Idaho.

Miles A. Prescott, 27, and Daniel A.J. Shinney, 28, were arrested while traveling on Interstate 15 just south of Pocatello and were booked into the Bannock County Jail.

Prescott and Shinney were in possession of 268.6 grams of heroin and other drug paraphernalia when they were arrested.

The arrests were the culmination of a heroin trafficking investigation by the Idaho State Police and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Pocatello Office.

The 268 grams of heroin is one of the largest-ever heroin seizures in southeastern Idaho.