Pennsylvania: Democrat County Commissioner Arrested in Major Drug Bust

A Democrat official in Pennsylvania has landed in handcuffs after being swept up in one of the largest multi-state drug busts in recent memory. Lehigh County Commissioner Zachary Cole-Borghi was arrested last week during a three-year investigation that uncovered a sprawling narcotics network stretching from Pennsylvania to Illinois, New York, New Jersey, and Wisconsin.

District Attorney Gavin Holihan announced the bust during a press conference, confirming that 22 people have been arrested so far. Cole-Borghi, who also worked as an open records officer at Bethlehem City Hall, was taken into custody at his workplace. He was charged with “possession of marijuana and possession with the intent to deliver a pound of marijuana” and has since been released on $50,000 bail.

Authorities say the haul from this operation is staggering: over 2,000 pounds of marijuana, significant amounts of cocaine, MDMA pills, THC products, more than $100,000 in cash, cryptocurrency accounts, and at least 25 firearms, including ghost guns and semi-automatic rifles. Two secret labs producing illegal THC products were also discovered and dismantled by the Pennsylvania State Police Clandestine Laboratory Team.

“This is a wide-ranging, as I said, multi-jurisdictional investigation, which included people yesterday who were arrested in the City of Chicago and the State of Wisconsin,” Holihan explained. “And there are warrants for people in multiple counties in Pennsylvania, as well as the state of New York, I believe the state of New Jersey, Philadelphia — so a wide-ranging conspiracy.”

The fact that a sitting Democrat commissioner has been implicated in such a massive drug operation underscores a disturbing trend of corruption and moral decay in public office. While everyday families in Pennsylvania struggle under rising crime, open-borders drug pipelines, and a weakened justice system, political figures who should be upholding the law are instead entangled in criminal networks that bring poison into communities.

This case highlights the growing reach of drug cartels and the sophisticated methods being used to distribute narcotics across state lines. It also serves as a stark reminder of the failure of soft-on-crime policies and the importance of holding public officials accountable to the same standards as ordinary Americans.

When elected leaders end up working with or enabling the very criminal networks they’re sworn to fight, trust in government erodes further. The people of Pennsylvania—and across the nation—are left asking how deep this rot goes, and how many other officials are looking the other way while cartels profit off American streets.