2 Burbank Men Held as Police Seize Cocaine
Two Burbank men described by police as major drug dealers in the Los Angeles area were arrested Friday in Glendale while trying to sell a kilogram of cocaine in a restaurant parking lot, authorities said.
Burbank Police spokesman Phil Whitehair said Oswaldo Pozo, 33, and Salvador Zamora, 19, were arrested at noon in the parking lot of the Salt Shaker Restaurant on North Central Avenue in Glendale while they were trying to sell the cocaine to two unidentified men for $40,000. Pozo and Zamora were being held at the Pasadena Jail in lieu of $250,000 bail each on suspicion of sale and transportation of cocaine.
Whitehair said the arrests followed a five-month investigation by Pasadena and Burbank narcotics investigators. Brent Lemmon, a narcotics investigator with the Pasadena police, said Pozo and Zamora may have picked up the cocaine in Miami this week. He said the drug had a street value of $148,000 to $300,000.
Lemmon said Pasadena police are investigating reports that the two men are part of a larger drug network.
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