Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan is announcing the details of a massive drug investigation that spanned several years and culminated in many arrests yesterday in Lehigh, Northampton and Montgomery counties as well as Philadelphia, New York, Chicago and Wisconsin.

This investigation remains ongoing and is the result of Lehigh County’s 12th Investigating Grand Jury and due to the confidentiality of those proceedings, they are limited in the amount of information that can be provided.

As of Aug. 28, there have been 22 individuals arrested and they anticipate many more arrests as this investigation proceeds. Among them is Lehigh County commissioner and Bethlehem City employee and Right to Know Officer Zachary Cole-Borghi, who is charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver.

The Lehigh County Drug Task Force was assisted by federal, state and local agencies to execute 26 search warrants at businesses and homes as a result of this three-year grand jury investigation.

Search warrants are still being processed on 283 financial institution accounts and various cryptocurrency accounts.

To date, some of the items seized include:

• Well over $100,000 in cash;

• Cryptocurrency accounts;

• More than 2,000 pounds of marijuana, large quantities of THC liquid, cocaine and MDMA pills;

• At least 25 firearms that include semi-automatic rifles and ghost guns.

Two clandestine laboratories manufacturing illegal THC products were also discovered and dismantled by members of the Pennsylvania State Police Clandestine Laboratory Team.

The preliminary hearings for those charged yesterday are currently scheduled for 2 p.m. Sept. 3 at Lehigh County Central Court. Some of those charged yesterday have already posted bail.

An investigation of this scale includes the cooperation and efforts of many law enforcement agencies, including the Lehigh County Drug Task Force; the Lehigh County Emergency Response Team; the James B. Martin Regional Intelligence and Investigation Center; Allentown and Bethlehem Police Department’s Emergency Response Team and Vice Units as well as patrol officers; Pennsylvania State Police (Troop M), Pennsylvania State Police’s Computer Crimes Unit; Special Emergency Response Team, Strike Force and Vice Units; the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General’s Bureau of Narcotic Investigations in Allentown; the Department of Homeland Security in Allentown, U.S. Marshals in Allentown; South Whitehall Township Police; Upper Macungie Police and detectives in New York and Montgomery County.

Additional law enforcement agencies in Illinois and Wisconsin were instrumental in taking suspects into custody and initiating extradition proceedings.