Two men arrested on felony heroin charges after Del Rio stop

A suspicious-persons call on Veterans Boulevard ended with Del Rio police pulling over a black passenger vehicle, finding syringes and a baggie that field-tested positive for heroin, and arresting two men on state jail felony charges. Officers said the stop began late on the 2100 block of Veterans Boulevard after a caller reported two suspicious males and said one appeared to be carrying a firearm.

Police responded at about 11:11 p.m. on May 30, 2026, and saw the vehicle leave the area southbound on Veterans Boulevard. Officers stopped it in the 2000 block of the roadway, where they reported seeing what looked like a handgun in the passenger-side door compartment. That item later turned out to be a BB gun, but the rest of the stop quickly raised more serious concerns.

According to the police account, officers also saw an open alcoholic beverage container and several syringes on the vehicle floorboard. One syringe reportedly contained a dark-colored liquid. A later search found additional drug paraphernalia, including a spoon with brown residue, another syringe and a small plastic baggie containing a brown-black tar-like substance. Field testing of that substance came back positive for heroin.

The men arrested were identified as Jonathan Elizeo Barron, 26, and Jose Herrera, 47. Both were charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance Penalty Group 1/1-B Less Than One Gram, a state jail felony. They were booked at the Del Rio Police Department and later transferred to the GEO Correctional Facility pending magistration.

The case adds another local data point to a stretch of narcotics enforcement across Del Rio and Val Verde County. In 2026, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Del Rio Port of Entry seized more than $2.2 million in cocaine, heroin and fentanyl hidden inside a passenger vehicle, along with another seizure involving more than $200,000 in cocaine. While the Port of Entry cases involved border interdiction, the Veterans Boulevard arrest shows how drug enforcement also reaches neighborhood streets, where a suspicious-persons call can uncover narcotics, paraphernalia and weapons-related concerns in the same traffic stop.

The Del Rio Police Department’s Records Division says open criminal investigations may be withheld from release if sharing details could harm detection, investigation or prosecution. For residents near Veterans Boulevard, the episode underscores how quickly a routine call can turn into a drug case with public-safety implications far beyond the two men taken into custody.