A Lehigh County elected official is among nearly two dozen people arrested as part of an ongoing drug investigation spanning multiple states, authorities said Friday.

The county’s district attorney , Gavin Holihan, announced the operation during a news conference at the county courthouse in Allentown.

“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 said Friday. “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.”

Among those arrested is Lehigh County Commissioner Zach Cole-Borghi, who is charged with marijuana possession

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