The State : S. Lake Tahoe Mayor Seized

The mayor of South Lake Tahoe, his wife and 16 other people have been arrested in connection with a 20-month undercover drug and money-laundering investigation, authorities said. Mayor Terry Trupp and his wife, Kim, were taken into custody on federal conspiracy and money-laundering charges involving alleged efforts to launder about $750,000 to FBI and Internal Revenue Service agents, officials said. The Trupps, who are being held without bail in El Dorado County Jail, will be arraigned today before a federal magistrate. Besides the 18 arrested in the probe, dubbed “Deep Snow,” authorities recovered about 12 kilograms of cocaine in arrests and seizures, agents said. No drugs were seized in the Trupps’ arrests, investigators said.