SIMI VALLEY : 2 Men Indicted on Drug-Selling Counts
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted two Simi Valley men on cocaine-smuggling and weapons charges that could net them each more than 120 years in prison.
The U.S. District Court grand jury’s indictment, filed Tuesday, charges Gardner Ernest Flockhart, 31, and Robert Dale Lloyd, 27, with one count each of conspiracy and distribution of cocaine, and two counts of possession with intent to distribute cocaine. Flockhart was also charged with using a firearm during a drug-trafficking crime, being a felon in possession of a firearm and possessing unregistered machine guns.
The indictment says that on Oct. 12 Lloyd offered to supply a confidential informer with three kilograms of cocaine.
On Oct. 14, Lloyd met Flockhart at a 7-Eleven store at the corner of Royal Avenue and Sycamore Drive.
At a shopping center, Lloyd delivered a bag containing cocaine to the informer and an undercover agent, who then arrested Lloyd, the indictmentsays.
A search of Flockhart’s Simi Valley house yielded five more kilograms of cocaine, $500,000 in cash and 125 guns, including many illegal weapons, authorities said.
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