Opinion ID: 198294
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Heading: The Los Murales Punto1

Text: 16 Otero-Coln testified that, sometime in 1988 or 1989, SantiagoLugo's brother Ral and Jorge Martnez-Rosado (Fobi) reached an agreement with Jose Roman Freites (Josean) for the distribution of cristal heroin at Los Murales. Otero-Coln, who had served as a lookout for Josean for approximately two months, became a runner who picked up drugs from Virgilio Davila. He testified that he began picking up fifty packages, each containing ten packets of heroin and costing $70. Eventually, he would pick up as many as 100 packages every three of four days, each costing $75. 17 Otero-Coln further testified that, after the POPR searched Reyes-Padilla's Virgilio Davila apartment, the distribution operation was moved to the apartment of Morales-Santiago, who also kept notebooks reflecting drug deliveries and debts. He stated that Ortiz-Baez and others who worked at the table in Isla Verde were right-hand men for Santiago-Lugo. These men would sometimes transport drugs to Los Murales when Otero-Coln could not. When Reyes-Padilla was out of heroin, Santiago would direct Otero-Coln to obtain it from another distribution group and keep the profits. 18 Hidalgo testified that he supervised cocaine and marijuana distribution at the Los Murales housing project in 1991 and 1992, and that during his tenure, all of the drugs distributed there belonged to Santiago-Lugo. He knew Otero-Coln as an individual who would come to the Virgilio Davila punto to obtain heroin for Santiago-Lugo's punto at Los Murales.