Federal and state agents discovered meth and cocaine in a pink backpack with Dora the Explorer. Records indicate that the agents found it in one of the two residences they searched on Tuesday in Miami’s Flagami neighborhood.
The backpack was found in a house with a white picket fence and a spring wreath on the door where a little girl lived with her mother, Dayana Gutierrez, and Carlos Sexto along Northwest Second Street, near 53 Avenue, near the Henry M. Flagler Elementary School, according to records.
The officers also discovered cocaine in boxes branded Cafe La Llave at a nearby residence where a teenage kid lived with his father, Jorge Ventosoler, on Northwest 44th Avenue, near Northwest Second Street and Kinloch Park Middle School, according to papers.
The officers detained Gutierrez, 33, and Sexto, 52, after discovering a bag containing approximately 165.5 grams of crystal meth, another bag containing approximately 180.5 grams of meth, and four pink tablets containing meth and cocaine inside the pink backpack, according to arrest reports in the case.
According to an arrest report in the case, the agents also arrested Ventosoler, 55, for the 358.5 grams of cocaine found inside the Cafe La Llave boxes stored in a bedroom and a laundry closet, 23 grams of meth on a table in a bedroom next to a desk, and two MDMA pills in the top drawer of a dresser in the master bedroom.
Federal agents and Miami-Dade County Sheriff’s Office deputies collaborated at the two houses with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which was responsible for the three arrests.
M-DCSO correctional deputies arrested Gutierrez, Sexto, and Ventosoler on Tuesday night at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, and prosecutors filed charges against them on Wednesday, according to records.
Gutierrez and Sexto were charged with amphetamine trafficking, possessing a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school, and child cruelty.
Gutierrez was also charged with cocaine trafficking and the sale or delivery of a controlled narcotic. Gutierrez’s bond was $78,500; Sexto’s pledge was $55,000.
Ventosoler was charged with amphetamine trafficking, distributing cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school, and child cruelty. His bond totaled $52,500.
The federal agents involved in the cases were from the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and Homeland Security Investigations.
Laura Maria Gonzalez-Marques, Circuit Judge of Miami-Dade County, was scheduled to rule over all three cases.
