Metro

Chinatown bus caught in ‘traffic’

Drug traffickers are now using Chinatown buses to bring their narcotics into the Big Apple.

Authorities busted five passengers with kilos of coke and methamphetamine as well as large quantities of marijuana stashed inside the buses on three occasions this year, law-enforcement sources said.

Investigators are zeroing in on Golden Horse Tours, which had at least three buses involved in the seizures, sources said.

The probers say traffickers favor the route from Houston to New York through Atlanta to bring in drugs from Mexico, said one law-enforcement source.

In the latest incident, last Wednesday, three couriers transporting 20 kilos of cocaine and a half-pound of meth, worth $15,000, in a Golden Horse bus were nabbed after a tip, sources said.

Agents also found 19 kilos of coke, worth about $646,000.

Three passengers — Ahumada Jesus-Alberto, 40, of Houston, and a Brooklyn couple, Alexi Torres-Rivas, 35, and Jennifer Carolina Torres-Chavez, 24 — were charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, according to NYC Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan.

One kilo of cocaine was also recovered in a carry-on bag aboard another Golden Horse bus around the same time, sources said.

Authorities are investigating whether the case is related to a March 27 incident in which the DEA seized 4 kilos of coke in a Golden Horse bus.