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Deputies bust cocaine sale at F’ville restaurantFri, 01/19/2007 - 12:47pm
By: John Munford
A server at El Ranchero in Fayetteville was arrested Thursday afternoon after an undercover drug agent bought two ounces of powder cocaine from him in the restaurant’s bathroom, deputies said. Agents also captured the person who supplied the cocaine, who was found with the $2,000 in cash that the undercover agent had used to purchase the cocaine from the server, said Capt. Mike Pruitt of the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department. The server, identified as Joel DeJesus Rojano, 21, of Riverdale also had 12 small individual bags of cocaine on him when he was arrested, Pruitt said. Rojano was charged with trafficking in cocaine and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. The man identified as the supplier, Carlos Gilverto Garza, 27, of College Park, was charged with trafficking in cocaine. Both were arrested Thursday afternoon after Rojano took the $2,000 in cash and delivered it to Garza behind the restaurant, Pruitt said. Deputies have been unable to find any documentation indicating that either man was living in the country legally, Pruitt confirmed. The investigation started two weeks ago with the undercover agent making four separate buys of cocaine in small quantities, Pruitt said. The agent would get Rojano’s attention and raise his fingers to indicate how many gram bags he wanted; Rojano would then go to the bathroom and return with the contraband wrapped in a napkin, pushing it to the agent across the bar and walking away, Pruitt said. Then the agent would wrap the money in the napkin and push it back across the bar where Rojano “would crumple it right in his hand and walk off with it,” Pruitt said. “That way nobody would see the money going back and forth.” The price was $40 for each gram bag, Pruitt said. login to post comments
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