Federal agents raided a house in Mission on a Sunday night. They walked out with 180 pounds of cocaine. They also walked out with stacks of cash. Some of the money was in the kitchen freezer.

The raid was on August 30. Agents got there around 8:50 p.m. The DEA and the Texas Department of Public Safety ran it together. They had a search warrant for the house.

Two people were inside. Both are now charged in federal court.

Court papers name them as Leila Lizette Vallejo, 21, of Donna, and Lenin Isai Trejo Barajas. He is in his mid-20s. He is from Mexico. Both face one count of drug conspiracy. The count covers more than 5 kilos of cocaine. In plain words, the feds say the two helped move big loads of cocaine.

The house had three bedrooms. It had almost no furniture, the complaint says. Only one bedroom had clothes in it.

Agents found 72 bricks in that house. Each brick was wrapped in plastic or foil. Inside was a white powder. A field test said it was cocaine. All of it weighed about 82 kilos. That is about 180 pounds.

The bricks were not in one spot. Agents found some in the main bedroom. They found more in a second bedroom. They found more in the garage.

Then the agents found the money. There were 22 bundles of cash. Each one was wrapped in green plastic. Some sat in the main bedroom. The rest sat in the kitchen freezer.

Someone had written on many of those green bundles by hand. The labels said "20k" and "80k" and "100k." One said "22,800." Agents think each label was the count inside the bundle.

The DEA posted about the raid on social media. The agency said agents took "more than $700,000 in cash."

Both people talked to agents that night, the complaint says.

Vallejo told agents that Trejo Barajas is her fiance. She said the two of them were the only ones living there. She said they had rented the house for two or three weeks.

She also told agents about "rectangles" in the house. Some were under the bed. Agents asked her what they were. She said they were drugs, the complaint says.

Vallejo said cars and people kept coming to the house. She said they came to pick up money. Agents asked what her fiance did. She called him "the receiver."

She let agents look at her iPad. It held photos and videos of her holding stacks of cash, the complaint says. They were shot inside the same Mission house.

Trejo Barajas told a different story. He said he and his wife were the only ones there. He said they had been there about six days. He said he waved a driver into the garage that day. But he said he only sold concrete. He said he knew nothing about the drugs. He said he knew nothing about the cash.

A DEA agent signed the complaint. A federal judge in McAllen signed off on it the next night.

Both went in front of a judge Tuesday morning in McAllen. The judge ordered Trejo Barajas held with no bond. He is a citizen of Mexico. He has no legal status here. Vallejo was set for her own bond hearing on Wednesday.

Stash houses are not new here. El Tejano has covered them before. In July, a man got away from a stash house in Hidalgo. He led police back and two more people got out. That story is here: https://www.eltejanorgv.com/hidalgo-stash-house-victim-escapes-leads-cops-back-to-save-two/

In August, a Mission man got 30 years. He beat a man to death inside a stash house. That story is here: https://www.eltejanorgv.com/mission-man-sentenced-to-30-years-for-fatal-stash-house-beating/

Both of those are other cases. Neither one is tied to Vallejo or Trejo Barajas.

This case sits in federal court in the Southern District of Texas.

A charge is not proof. Everyone is innocent until a court says otherwise.