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An employee of a Sonic Drive-In restaurant in New Mexico has been arrested after losing his bag of cocaine that somehow ended up on a customer’s hot dog, police said.
Jeffrey David Salazar, 54, is being charged with possession of a controlled substance, Espanola police said in a press release.
Police said illegal narcotics were discovered in a customer’s recent “Coney” purchase from Sonic.
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Jeffrey David Salazar, 54, is being charged with possession of a controlled substance, (police of Spain)
According to police, the substance was accidentally added to the food while Salazar was preparing the order.
A “field test” confirmed that the substance discovered in the food was cocaine, police said.
According to the incident report, a woman called police on Tuesday after biting into her food only to discover she had bitten into a plastic bag, according to the Rio Grande Sun. She really believes that some of the powdered substance got into her mouth.
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A Sonic Drive-In employee was arrested after he lost his bag of cocaine that somehow ended up on a customer’s hot dog. (Photo by: Don & Melinda Crawford/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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The affidavit for the arrest warrant states that Salazar was observed on video surveillance conducting “what appeared to be a personal transaction with a female employee.” Salazar then prepares her dinner before appearing to frantically search the area “like he’s lost something.”
Salazar admitted to police that he bought the cocaine from someone in the restaurant’s parking lot, according to the warrant.
