Two men busted with 65 pounds of heroin in Westchester

It was the axle of evil.

Investigators have busted two men who had over 65 pounds of heroin hidden in the axle of a truck's trailer.

Fernando Quiles and Jorge Ayala were busted earlier this week in Westchester following a months-long investigation by the city Special Narcotics Prosecutor's office and federal Drug Enforcement Agency into a Mexican drug-running operation.

Wiretaps showed Quiles was getting tractor trailer shipments of drugs from a Mexican drug cartel through Texas, then distributing the dope throughout New York City with Ayala's help, officials said.

Investigators determined they had a big shipment coming to New York over the wiretaps.

In an Aug. 13 conversation between the drug runners, Quiles told Ayala he needed a place to park "a trailer for at least one day," prosecutors said.

The feds tracked the shipment to a large single-family home in Croton-on-Hudson, which the men had rented to stash drugs.

Investigators said the pair planned to sell the heroin wholesale for $2.3 million, and that it could then be repackaged into over half a million individual doses.

The pair were busted near the home, which investigators said was empty except for a narcotics ledger book, tools, a scale and packaging materials.

Quiles, 47, of Fort Worth, Texas, and Ayala, 33, of Greenwich, Connecticut, were arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court Wednesday night on charges of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree and ordered held without bail.