Detectives
looking for baby-toting crack dealer
Investigators are looking for a man who they say held a
baby in his arms while selling crack cocaine to detectives
in an undercover drug sting.
The investigation began in June, when Broward Sheriff's
Office deputies in Dania Beach started a three-month investigation
into illegal narcotics sales in the city.
Wearing street clothes, deputies in unmarked cars made
numerous drug buys and videotaped the deals.
BSO says it has arrested nearly all the dope dealers in
the operation, but they're asking for help identifying one
man in particular -- the one who sold crack while holding
the infant.
The deal went down at about 11 p.m. on Aug. 2 in the parking
lot of a motel at 825 E. Dania Beach Boulevard in Dania
Beach, investigators say. The man sold an undercover deputy
two rocks of crack cocaine.
Investigators need to identify the man, partly because
they want to make sure the child is receiving the proper
care.
Children exposed to a drug environment may face dangers
such as physical abuse, sexual abuse, medical neglect, and
lack of basic care like regular meals and sanitary and safe
living conditions, said BSO, citing the National Alliance
for Drug Endangered Children.
If ignored and left unmonitored, these children continue
to be victims caught in a cycle of drug abuse, BSO said. |
