Opinion ID: 4527195
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Text: On March 24, 2017, Puerto Rico police officers who were patrolling an area in Toa Alta, Puerto Rico observed a vehicle parked on the side of the road. Upon approaching the vehicle, the officers asked the driver -- later identified as Díaz -- for his driver's license and car registration, which he refused to provide. Díaz then attempted to drive away twice but was eventually stopped. During the intervention, an officer noticed that Díaz was holding a small, red-colored zip-lock baggie containing aluminum foil -2- wrapping, which was later determined to contain heroin. When Díaz exited the car, the responding officers saw that he was carrying a firearm, and they arrested him. While searching Díaz incident to the arrest, officers seized from his person a .40-caliber Glock pistol and a magazine containing a total of ten rounds of ammunition. Agents also seized: eighty-six small plastic bags containing less than fifty grams of cocaine; five cellular phones; $572 in cash; a ledger containing names and numbers; a selector switch chip used to modify the Glock pistol to fire automatically; forty-one rounds of .40-caliber ammunition; eight rounds of 7.62-caliber ammunition; a part of a firearm and other accessories described as a slide-back plate; 100 empty plastic vials; four red empty aluminum wrappings; and two small empty plastic zip-lock baggies.