March 30, 2011 11:37 AM

http://www.themonitor.com/news/mission-48576-money-operation.html

MISSION — A night of alcohol, drugs and sexual advances ended with the arrest of three men and a seizure of more than $100,000 from an alleged money-laundering operation, police said.

Rene Humberto Castelo, 21, Miguel Villarreal, 21, and Pedro Delgado, were arrested early Sunday morning by Mission police who responded to the 2100 block of Solar St. in connection with an attempted sexual assault, court records show.

On Tuesday morning, Castelo and Villarreal were charged each with one count of money laundering, one count of fraudulent use of identifying information, one count of possession of marijuana and one count of possession of a controlled substance. Delgado was charged with only one count of possession of a controlled substance-cocaine. The men were not charged with sexual assault.

A Mission municipal judge set a $90,000 for Castelo, an $85,000 bond for Villarreal and a $15,000 bond for Delgado before sending them to the Hidalgo County Jail.

On Sunday morning, a woman called Mission police from a convenience store on the 3300 block of Shary Road and told them that she and another woman had been taken to the house willingly but were then groped and asked to perform sexual favors, the criminal complaint states. When the women refused they were threatened, one of them managed to flee and directed police to the residence.

When police arrived at the house, they detained the men, and during a pat-down, they found Delgado to have 0.4 grams of cocaine and Castelo to have half a pill of Clonazapam, according to the complaint. Authorities also noticed a smell of marijuana coming from inside the residence and obtained a search warrant.

Inside the residence, authorities seized a total of $100,297 in different denominations, three false Texas driver’s licenses, one AK-47, one .308-caliber assault rifle and one .204-caliber long rifle. Police also seized 28 cellular phones of different models, two police scanners, one radio frequency jammer various pieces of jewelry, 2 grams of Xanax and 0.2 ounces of marijuana.