TO THE UNDERCOVER NARCOTICS DETECTIVES FOR 15 HUNDRED DOLLARS IN CASH. THIS WAS TESTED AND FOUND TO BE 69.1 GRAM TOTAL OF COCAINE.
IN COUNT 15, ON AUGUST 20, '02, UNDERCOVER NARCOTICS DETECTIVES PROCEEDED TO THE AREA OF 161 AND MAPLE CANYON, TO A CVS PARKING LOT TO MAKE A DIRECT PURCHASE OF A HUNDRED DOSES OF ECSTASY FROM THIS DEFENDANT FOR 12 HUNDRED DOLLARS. THEY CONTACTED THIS DEFENDANT. HE STATED THAT THE CO-DEFENDANT, FREDDIE CELDANO, HAD DRUGS AND TO CALL HIM. THEY CALLED FREDDIE AND WERE TOLD TO GO TO THE RUSH CREEK SPORTS BAR, 6150 SUNBURY ROAD. THE DETECTIVES PROCEEDED TO THE AREA AND OBSERVED FREDDIE CELDANO AND HARRY CELDANO AT THE BAR. HE BEGAN TALKED [sic] WITH THEM ABOUT THE TRANSACTION. FREDDIE INDICATED TO THE DETECTIVES THAT RYAN SNOW WAS ON HIS WAY WITH THE DRUGS. RYAN DID ARRIVE. THEY WENT TO THE RESTROOM OF THE BAR, AT WHICH TIME RYAN SNOW PRODUCED AN OUNCE OF COCAINE. THE DETECTIVES INDICATED THAT THEY WANTED ECSTASY, NOT COCAINE, AND THESE INDIVIDUALS WENT BACK OUT AND SPOKE WITH FREDDIE CELDANO, AND HE CONTACTED RAMON HERNANDEZ. AND A SHORT TIME LATER, MR. HERNANDEZ AND LEWIS TOREZ ARRIVED AT THE BAR. THEY WENT TO THE BACK TO THE RESTROOM, AT WHICH TIME THE DEFENDANT COUNTED OUT 100 UNIT DOSES OF ECSTASY AND SOLD THEM TO THE OFFICER FOR 12 HUNDRED DOLLARS OF OFFICIAL CITY FUNDS.
JUST TO NOTE, THE COCAINE WHICH RYAN SNOW HAD BROUGHT THEM BY MISTAKE WAS ALSO SOLD TO THE OFFICERS AT THAT TIME.
YOUR HONOR, WOULD THIS CASE HAVE GONE TO TRIAL AS RELATES TO COUNT ONE, THE STATE WOULD HAVE PRESENTED INTO EVIDENCE THAT THIS DEFENDANT AND FOUR OTHER DEFENDANTS NAMED IN THAT INDICTMENT, FREDDIE CELDANO, HARRY CELDANO, ALBERTO MARQUEZ AND RYAN SNOW HAD ENGAGED IN A PATTERN OF CORRUPT ACTIVITY, NAMELY, THE SELLING OF COCAINE AND ECSTASY IN LARGE AMOUNTS ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS, AS SET FORTH BY THE PREDICATE OFFENSES IN THE INDICTMENT.
THE STATE WOULD HAVE PRESENTED TESTIMONY AS TO STATEMENTS MADE BY SEVERAL INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED IN THIS ORGANIZATION RELATING TO THE STRUCTURE OF THE ORGANIZATION AND TO THE FACT THAT GENERALLY, LARGE SALES WERE TO BE MADE BY FREDDIE AND HARRY, MID-LEVEL SALES BY RAMON, AND ALBERTO MARQUEZ AND RYAN SNOW, BASICALLY, HANDLED THE SMALL END STUFF. THESE WERE STATEMENTS MADE TO OFFICERS BY THESE INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED IN THIS ORGANIZATION.
ADDITIONALLY, AS NOTED IN THESE TWO CASES, WHEN SALES WERE BEING MADE, TELEPHONE CONTACTS WERE GOING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THESE INDIVIDUALS AND THE INDIVIDUALS WERE NUMEROUSLY INVOLVED IN EACH OTHER'S SALES, SUPPLYING EACH OTHER AND BRINGING ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS IF NEEDED.
IN CASE NO. 03CR-4055, ON JUNE 4, THE DEFENDANT SOLD 100 UNIT DOSES OF ECSTASY FOR $920 TO A CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT. THIS OCCURRED OUTSIDE THE PARKING LOT OUTSIDE OF 1712 GRANITE WAY LANE. AT THAT TIME THE DEFENDANT INDICATED TO THE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT THAT HE HAD SOME MEXICAN FRIENDS IN FROM ARIZONA STAYING IN A HOTEL, AND THEY HAD 50 POUNDS OF MARIJUANA