Monday, June 23, 2008
Two Cocaine Cases Yield Three Arrests.
Three people were arrested last week including an illegal alien following undercover drug investigations into cocaine trafficking in Perry County.
On Tuesday afternoon, June 17, UNITE detectives and officers from the Hazard Police Department, Perry County Sheriff¹s Office and Kentucky State Police
K-9 unit arrested two Georgia men after they sold approximately 12 ounces of cocaine during an undercover drug transaction in a Hazard shopping center parking lot.
Jose M. Escobar Canoles, age 29, of Pinehurst Drive, Smyrna, Georgia, and 51-year-old Arnie J. Lewis, of South Highway 27, Carrollton, Georgia, were each charged with first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance.
During the arrest, the officers discovered a loaded handgun on the front floorboard of their 2007 Chrysler 300-C along with $1,000 in counterfeit $100 bills.
The case against Canoles, who is an undocumented alien, and Lewis will be presented to a federal grand jury for possible indictment.
On Monday, June 16, detectives from UNITE and deputies from the Perry County Sheriff¹s Office charged 68-year-old Bill Stewart, of Middle Ridge Road in Bonnyman, with one count each of first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance and second-degree possession of a controlled substance.
Police had received complaints that Stewart was selling cocaine from a hotel room in Hazard.
Because Stewart had an outstanding Floyd County arrest warrant for theft by deception over $300, officers went to the hotel to serve the warrant.
During a search of the room officers found approximately one-quarter ounce of cocaine, $518 in cash, and various equipment used to prepare cocaine for sale.
All three suspects were lodged in the Kentucky River Regional Jail.
On Tuesday afternoon, June 17, UNITE detectives and officers from the Hazard Police Department, Perry County Sheriff¹s Office and Kentucky State Police
K-9 unit arrested two Georgia men after they sold approximately 12 ounces of cocaine during an undercover drug transaction in a Hazard shopping center parking lot.
Jose M. Escobar Canoles, age 29, of Pinehurst Drive, Smyrna, Georgia, and 51-year-old Arnie J. Lewis, of South Highway 27, Carrollton, Georgia, were each charged with first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance.
During the arrest, the officers discovered a loaded handgun on the front floorboard of their 2007 Chrysler 300-C along with $1,000 in counterfeit $100 bills.
The case against Canoles, who is an undocumented alien, and Lewis will be presented to a federal grand jury for possible indictment.
On Monday, June 16, detectives from UNITE and deputies from the Perry County Sheriff¹s Office charged 68-year-old Bill Stewart, of Middle Ridge Road in Bonnyman, with one count each of first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance and second-degree possession of a controlled substance.
Police had received complaints that Stewart was selling cocaine from a hotel room in Hazard.
Because Stewart had an outstanding Floyd County arrest warrant for theft by deception over $300, officers went to the hotel to serve the warrant.
During a search of the room officers found approximately one-quarter ounce of cocaine, $518 in cash, and various equipment used to prepare cocaine for sale.
All three suspects were lodged in the Kentucky River Regional Jail.
# posted by Joe Kinzer @ 4:39 PM 
