{"id":395953,"date":"2026-09-10T16:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/395953\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T16:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:02:10","slug":"seniors-73-and-89-accused-of-armed-cocaine-marijuana-trafficking-at-allapattah-drug-den","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/395953\/","title":{"rendered":"Seniors, 73 and 89, accused of armed cocaine, marijuana trafficking at Allapattah drug den"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0September 10, 2026 at 11:06 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2Q3JM2LUGVD67GCYKFZU3WFWOU.jpg\"  width=\"875\" height=\"492\"\/>Magdaleno Medina and Cesar Valdes (MDCR\/Copyright 2026 Google) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 Police say two seniors, including a man pushing 90, were armed cocaine and marijuana traffickers out of a drug den they ran in Miami\u2019s Allapattah neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/09\/10\/acusan-a-adultos-mayores-de-73-y-89-anos-de-trafico-de-cocaina-y-marihuana-con-armas-en-guarida-de-drogas-de-allapattah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/09\/10\/acusan-a-adultos-mayores-de-73-y-89-anos-de-trafico-de-cocaina-y-marihuana-con-armas-en-guarida-de-drogas-de-allapattah\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police arrested Magdaleno Medina, 73, and Cesar Valdes, 89, at a home in the 1700 block of Northwest 19th Street on Wednesday. That home served as the drug den, they said, and was the pair\u2019s listed address.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the Miami Police Department, detectives did an undercover cocaine buy at the home in August. Medina, police said, sold an undercover agent a baggie of cocaine for $60.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Then, on Wednesday afternoon, a SWAT team conducted a raid at the home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An MPD report states that investigators found more than 140 grams of cocaine and nearly 1,300 grams of marijuana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said they also found a .38 caliber revolver and more than a dozen rounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Both men were taken into custody on several felony charges, including armed cocaine trafficking, felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a place for the purpose of trafficking cocaine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Cuban nationals also face Immigration and Customs Enforcement holds, according to jail records.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0September 10, 2026 at 11:06 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandMagdaleno Medina and Cesar Valdes (MDCR\/Copyright 2026 Google) MIAMI \u2014 Police say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-395953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395953","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=395953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}