-from kcchronicle.com-

AURORA – Police have charged a 33-year-old man in connection with the discovery this week of 2,500 pounds of marijuana.

Fernando Velaczo-Rodriguez, who is from Guadalajara, Mexico, is being held at the Kane County Jail on $150,000 bond.

Police believe that the marijuana, bundled in 144 individually wrapped packages that then were hidden inside watermelon crates, was tied to a large drug-trafficking operation out of Mexico.

Five other men arrested Tuesday night with Velaczo-Rodriguez were released without charges.

Acting on a tip, officers Tuesday night staked out a warehouse in the 1500 block of Dearborn Street and arrested the six men as they unloaded crates from a semi-trailer.

The drugs have a street value of $2.58 million.