An 82-year-old man was arrested Tuesday after Miami Police said they saw him sell crack cocaine to two other men in Little Havana.
According to police, officers were conducting surveillance in the parking lot of Centrum Health at 434 Southwest 12th Avenue when they witnessed the transaction at around 3:55 p.m.
An arrest report states that 65-year-old Frank Rodriguez-Diaz biked toward a group of people, had a short conversation, and then gave another man in the group, 58-year-old Raymond Vega, an unknown amount of money.
Vega then allegedly gave the money to 82-year-old Tomas Casanova, who got up from his spot by a tree, “reached into his right cargo shorts pocket and pulled out a white napkin” with crack cocaine rocks. He gave one rock to each man, police said.
An officer “gave the takedown signal” and all the men were taken into custody.
When an officer searched Casanova, a white paper napkin with 11 white rocks identified as crack cocaine were found in his pocket, along with $50, authorities said. Another officer said they found two rocks in the area where Rodriguez-Diaz and Vega were sitting.
Miami Police spokeswoman Kenia Fallat said Casanova is “to stranger to police” and was previously arrested for selling drugs.
