Police stumbled upon bags of heroin stamped with President Donald Trump’s face while arresting a man Monday who fled from authorities just days earlier.
Officers stopped Carlos Rivera, 24, Thursday to question him when he sped off in his car from police, damaging an unmarked police cruiser and another vehicle. Officials said Rivera has at least five open complaints against him, promoting the initial stop. Police spotted Rivera again Monday in a barber shop on Havemeyer Street in Brooklyn and stopped to arrest him on charges of reckless endangerment from the Feb. 2 stop, reports the New York Post.
When the officers arrested Rivera they discovered a large amount of heroin in his possession in several baggies with Trump’s face on them. This comes after police in Florida busted a drug operation Friday, finding more than 5,000 bags of heroin with the president’s image on them. The haul was worth an estimated $100,000.
“So all I want to say to this drug dealer is, ‘Big mistake by putting the president’s picture on this,'” Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi told reporters during a press conference regarding the bust. “I think that wall might be built a little faster now.”
Rivera now faces charges of criminal possession of a controlled substance and intent to sell, criminal mischief and reckless endangerment. He has a long history of run-ins with the law including, a previous drug possession charge and another for smoking marijuana in public.
Police in New York are busy in the fight against heroin, arresting 32 people involved in an international heroin distribution ring Jan. 31 following a joint investigation between the Bronx District Attorney’s Office, the New York City Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Agency over eight months.
The defendants face a 72-count indictment and potential life sentences in prison. Police confiscated 103 pounds of heroin and fentanyl, a painkiller behind many overdose deaths known to be 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine.
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