ARRESTED: Manufacture and Delivery of Controlled Substance (3.7g cocaine) Poss

Benigno Ortega (22)

On 03/23/2017 Agents with the Special Investigations Unit conducted a “consent to search” at a residence on the 1000 block of E. Jefferson. Information had been received thru the Crime-Stoppers hotline that a male individual at that residence was in the business of selling illegal narcotics. After obtaining consent, Agents located 13.8 ounces of Marijuana as well as 3.7 grams of cocaine packaged for sell. A male individual identified as Benigno Ortega took responsibility for the illegal narcotics found at the residence. Ortega was arrested and charged with Manufacture and/or Delivery of a Controlled Substance (cocaine) and Possession of Marijuana.