FOND DU LA, WI, Feb. 7 – Two men arrested by federal agents on drug charges — including one credited with helping solve the Tate-LaBianca murders in California 12 years ago — were released from the Fond du Lac County Jail on Saturday.

Alan L. Springer, 38, of Mancelona, Mich., and Lloyd J. Carey, 36, of Dexter, Mich., each posted $2,000 cash bail and were released from custody. They were brought to the Fond du Lac County Jail on Friday and held overnight at the request of a U.S. marshal from Milwaukee.

According to Gary Pucker, Fond du Lac County Jail supervisor, the federal government has a contract with the county to hold prisoners if it has space. He said the county was contacted Friday and asked if it had room for the prisoners.

Pucker said federal authorities checked with several other jails, because there was no space for the prisoners in the Milwaukee area.

A third man, Eduardo Alfonseo, 24, of Bogota, Colombia, who also was arrested in connection with the drug case, remains in custody at the Fond du Lac County jail under $50,000 bail.

The three were arrested at the airport Holiday Inn at Milwaukee and charged with selling cocaine to undercover federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents. They appeared before a federal magistrate in Milwaukee on Friday.

Springer was a member of a motorcycle club in California when he told Los Angeles police he had visited Charles Manson, convicted of the Tate-LaBianca murders, at a ranch near Hollywood, according to the Associated Press. He said Manson told him he had “knocked over” five people.

Springer told U.S. Magistrate Aaron Goodstein Friday that he had “a little confusion with a cycle group I rode with that involved that Charles Manson outfit…I helped the state.”

The complaint filed against Springer alleged that he had told undercover agents he was with a Colombian who could periodically provide several kilos of cocaine from Colombia.