Local News in Brief : 21 Rock Cocaine Customers Arrested
Twenty-one people were arrested on suspicion of buying rock cocaine during an undercover police operation in Inglewood, the city that warns drug users, “Behind Your Rock Could Be a Cop.”
Nineteen men and two women were taken into custody Wednesday night and early Thursday and were being held on $2,500 bail, police said. The operation was the first in the city since a publicity campaign in May warned users against buying drugs in Inglewood. Billboards, bus benches and bumper stickers carry the anti-drug message.
Police raided a first-floor apartment at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and arrested the two tenants--Rene Flores Rosas, 26, and Aracely Palencia, 24--for allegedly selling a rock of cocaine to a policeman for $20.
Officers then took over the apartment and during the next five hours sold cocaine themselves through the apartment’s kitchen window, Lt. Larry Carter said. The operation was ended at 12:30 a.m. Thursday so that the Inglewood jail would not become overloaded, Carter said.
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