It’s a bad idea to sell drugs. It’s a worse idea to sell drugs near a school, especially to an undercover Pasco County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) deputy, as one Wesley Chapel man recently found out the hard way.
According to PCSO, just before 9 p.m. on June 22, Carlos Enrique Berrios, 22, of The Arbors community in New River, was arrested at the New River Community Center, where he had gone to meet up with a potential customer to sell cocaine and marijuana, with whom he had been in contact with through phone calls and text messages on his cell phone.
The PCSO report says that Berrios parked in the New River Community Center parking lot (located on Prairie View Way about 700 ft. from the Creative World Wesley Chapel preschool) and sold 7.1 grams of cocaine and 447.9 grams (about one pound) of marijuana to an undercover PCSO narcotics detective.
While possessing, selling and using cocaine and marijuana are illegal, under Florida law, it also is illegal to be in possession of and to sell narcotics within 1,000 of a school.
Berrios was arrested and charged with six counts of possession of marijuana with intent to sell within 1,000 ft. of a school, five counts each of the sale of marijuana within 1,000 ft. of a school and use of a two-way device to facilitate a felony, four counts of possession of cocaine within 1,000 ft. of a school, two counts each of possession of cocaine with intent to sell and possession of paraphernalia and one count of selling cocaine within 1,000 ft. of a school.
Berrios remains in custody at the Land O’Lakes Detention Center in lieu of a $485,300 bond.
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