MIAMI – Inside a pink backpack, with Dora The Explorer decorations, federal and state agents reported finding meth and cocaine. Records show it was in one of two homes they searched Tuesday in Miami’s Flagami neighborhood.
The backpack was 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, records show,
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The agents also found cocaine stored inside boxes labeled Cafe La Llave at a nearby house where a teenage boy lived with his father, Jorge Ventosoler, along Northwest 44 Avenue, near Northwest Second Street and Kinloch Park Middle School, records show.
The agents arrested Gutierrez, 33, and Sexto, 52, after finding a bag with about 165.5 grams of crystal meth, another bag with about 180.5 grams of meth, and four pink pills with meth and cocaine inside the pink backpack, according to arrest reports in the case.
The agents also arrested Ventosoler, 55, over the 358.5 grams of cocaine that were inside the Cafe La Llave boxes stored in a bedroom and a laundry closet, 23 grams of meth that were on a table in a bedroom next to a desk, and two MDMA pills inside a dresser’s top drawer in the master bedroom, according to an arrest report in the case.
Federal agents and Miami-Dade County Sheriff’s Office deputies worked at the two houses with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the arresting agency in the three cases.
M-DCSO correctional deputies booked Gutierrez, Sexto, and Ventosoler on Tuesday night at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center and prosecutors filed cases against them on Wednesday, records show.
Gutierrez and Sexto faced charges of amphetamine trafficking, possession of a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school, and child abuse.
Gutierrez also faced charges of cocaine trafficking, and sale or delivery of a controlled substance. Gutierrez’s bond was $78,500 and Sexto’s bond was $55,000
Ventosoler faced charges of amphetamine trafficking, delivering cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school, and child abuse. His bond was $52,500.
The federal agents involved in the cases were with the Drug Enforcement Administration; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and Homeland Security Investigations.
Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Laura Maria Gonzalez-Marques was set to preside over the three cases.