A man was arrested Tuesday after police said they saw him sell crack cocaine to two other men in Little Havana. <\/p>\n
According to Miami police, officers were conducting surveillance in the parking lot of Centrum Health at 434 Southwest 12th Avenue when they witnessed the transaction at around 3:55 p.m. <\/p>\n
An arrest report states that 65-year-old Frank Rodriguez-Diaz biked toward a group of people, had a short conversation, and then gave another man in the group, 58-year-old Raymond Vega, an unknown amount of money. <\/p>\n
Vega then allegedly gave the money to 82-year-old Tomas Casanova, who got up from his spot by a tree, “reached into his right cargo shorts pocket and pulled out a white napkin” with crack cocaine rocks. He gave one rock to each man, police said. <\/p>\n
An officer “gave the takedown signal” and all the men were taken into custody. <\/p>\n
When an officer searched Casanova, a white paper napkin with 11 white rocks identified as crack cocaine were found in his pocket, along with $50, authorities said. <\/p>\n
Casanova was charged with selling crack cocaine within 1,000 feet of a church or convenience store, crack cocaine possession and other drug charges. <\/p>\n
Records show that Casanova was previously arrested in Miami-Dade in 2014 on charges of selling or possessing with intention of selling cocaine and oxycodone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested Tuesday after police said they saw him sell crack cocaine to two other men…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15403,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-279502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-little-havana","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}