FORT MYERS, Fla.- Fort Myers Police busted six people in connection to a crystal meth trafficking scheme.

One of the six people arrested includes Jose Flores, the owner of the Palm Beach Boulevard auto dealership, City of Palms Auto.

"Tell you the truth, I don't believe it yet," said Leandro Rodriguez, manager of a nearby auto dealership.

People who know Flores were shocked to learn he was put behind bars, accused of negotiating a drug deal that brought what police call a significant amount of crystal meth to Fort Myers.

"Pretty nice guy, he drove kind of an old car, a 1996 white car, not a lot of money on him...nothing like that," said Rodriguez.

We asked if there was ever any indication Flores had been negotiation drug deals out of the dealership, "No indication, never," he said.

Police say Flores made it onto their radar about eight months ago after hearing he allegedly negotiated smaller drug deals out of the business.

"We knew we had high level distributor here and we just maintained constant surveillance, figured out what his habits were, what his contacts were stuff that he did when he didn't know we were with him and we were," explained Sgt. Jay Rodriguez with the Fort Myers Police Department.

Using a confidential informant, police were able to get Flores to negotiate a deal to bring down six pounds of crystal meth, $140,000 worth from Georgia to Fort Myers.

The deal went down on Friday at Flores' home on Fifth Street East.

Six people were arrested, including Flores, his bodyguard Obdulio Medina, and the supplier who drove the drugs to Southwest Florida, Gladis-Arias Garcia.

Police say the three other suspects in custody are in the country illegally from Mexico, including Arias-Garcia, Miguel Sanchez and Javier Medina Santoyo.

Mexico is the same place police believe the drugs originated, in a so-called "super lab".

"The quality is very high quality, the crystals are super hard, so we do believe these came from South America, Mexico," said Sgt. Rodriguez.

Police aren't sure how the drugs made it across the U.S. border. We are told when the drugs made it to the Atlanta area, they were driven to Southwest Florida.

Detectives do not believe the crystal meth was to stay in Fort Myers, instead, they say it probably would have been divided up and transported to other areas for sale.

Police say this may be one of the biggest crystal meth busts ever for the city. The US Attorney's Office will prosecute the case.

All six were in Lee County Jail custody, each on $30,000 bond as of Tuesday afternoon.