Seneca Police Department Charges Two With Trafficking In Heroin Charges

(Seneca, SC)————————-The Seneca Police Department has charged an Oconee County man and woman with Trafficking in Heroin charges after officers executed a search warrant at a hotel room on the Highway 123 by-pass. 

26 year old Jessica Blaze Gardo and 27 year old Joshua Merrill Nix were taken into custody after execution of the search warrant late last week. 

Gardo has been charged with two counts of Trafficking in Heroin while Nix has been charged with one count of Trafficking in Heroin. The charge against Nix was obtained after after an undercover operative working at the direction of the Seneca Police Department made a controlled purchase of a quantity of Heroin from Nix. 

During the execution of the search warrant, a quantity of money and narcotics were seized along with drug paraphernalia.