Opinion ID: 6111678
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Video of January 5 Parking Garage Meeting

Text: In the first video -- capturing a January 5 meeting between both defendants and R.E. in a Malden, Massachusetts parking garage -- the following transpired: Pena and Ortiz arrive together at a prearranged meeting spot in a BMW to conduct a cocaine-base transaction. Upon arriving, Pena exits the BMW, enters R.E.'s undercover vehicle, and informs R.E. that he has less than the previously agreed-to amount of drugs with him because the purported source of the - 5 - supply, Black, thought the deal was for two baskets (seven grams) instead of the previously agreed-upon sixty-two.2 Pena then represents that earlier that day, he (presumably Black) was like, 'Yo, try to see if he' (R.E.) 'even want that seven,' to which Pena purportedly demurred to Black: 'Why would he' (R.E.) 'want . . . a seven . . . [i]f . . . [h]e's buying a sixtytwo'? In the ensuing discussion as to when the full deal could take place, Pena opens the passenger-side window of R.E.'s vehicle and shouts to Ortiz, who is in the driver's seat of the BMW, What time can Black be here for sure? Ortiz replies, He's gonna come right back . . . . Said that he could come back after traffic. . . . Black is about his business. After R.E. explains that he has a curfew, Ortiz says he will call Black. The parties then agree to complete the deal later that day or, if . . . [Black] can't do it a little later, then early the next morning.