Three charged with cocaine trafficking after cops make undercover buys in Wake County
Two men from Raleigh and one from Zebulon were arrested Thursday evening on cocaine-trafficking and conspiracy charges when Wake County sheriff's deputies surrounded them at a shopping center on New Hope Church Road after the drug was delivered to an undercover cop.
Bartolome Amirkhail Rojas-Almonte, 26, Nelsony Ortiz-Delacruz, 30, and Angel Bienvenido Garcia-Burdiez, 19, were at the strip mall at 2215 New Hope Church Road, records showed.
Rojas was charged with three counts of cocaine trafficking. The others were charged with one count each.
Authorities listed Rojas-Almonte as living on Beddell Street in Raleigh. Records showed Ortiz-Delacruz lives in Raleigh but has no permanent address. The records listed Garcia-Burdiez as living on Banjo Drive. Records listed that street as being in Durham, but the only area street with that name is in Zebulon.
According to the charges that deputies made in arrest warrants issued before the bust Thursday, an undercover agent bought between 28 and 200 grams of cocaine from Rojas-Almonte on April 4 and about 4 grams on Wednesday.
Charges filed after the arrest say Rojas-Almonte delivered another 28 to 200 grams of cocaine to the same undercover cop on Thursday.
The range of 28 to 200 grams triggers one of several levels of felony trafficking. Twenty-eight grams is almost exactly an ounce.
The trafficking and conspiracy charges against Ortiz-Delacruz and Garcia-Burdiez were based on the cocaine delivery Thursday.
Garcia-Burdiez also was charged with having controlled substances in a jail. Authorities said he had about 8 grams of cocaine and 9 alprazolam pills with him when he was booked at the Wake County Detention Center.
Rojas-Almonte was held in lieu of $1 million bail pending a court appearance.
Garcia-Burdiez was held on $750,000 bail and Ortez-Delacruz on $650,000 bail.
This story was originally published April 20, 2018 at 8:23 AM with the headline "Three charged with cocaine trafficking after cops make undercover buys in Wake County."