Nine employees at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.’s Fayetteville, N.C., tire plant were arrested in a drug raid at the plant yesterday.

The raid turned up illegal drugs in the employees’ vehicles and in the plant, police said, including marijuana, cocaine, prescription drugs and Ecstacy. Police said the arrests – and arrest warrants for five more men – came after a lengthy undercover operation at the plant with narcotics agents posing as Goodyear employees.

The police investigated, and set up the seven-month sting operation, at the request of Goodyear after the tiremaker fielded a number of complaints by other plant workers.

Police said that more than 70 felony drug charges were filed against the nine men, primarily possession with the intent to sell and delivery charges.