Houston Lake Dope Salesman Gets Stone Cold Busted
A Platte County man has been charged with drug trafficking after a DEA task force found 375 pounds of marijuana. Reymundo L. Gonzalez, 24, was charged February 20 with attempting to receive a 220-pound shipment of marijuana at his residence, where investigators later found an additional 155 pounds of the drug.
Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd said his office filed the charges after the DEA’s Kansas City Interdiction Task Force discovered a package containing 220 pounds of marijuana at a shipping center for a large freight carrier.
According to court documents, the Task Force began investigating after the package was received at the shipping center. It was addressed to a man who was arrested on February 19 when he tried to pick up the package.
The man told investigators he had been paid $500 to pick up the package for Gonzalez. The Task Force then allowed the man to deliver a decoy package to Gonzalez’s Platte County residence later that day.
When the man arrived at Gonzalez’s house with Task Force officers, Gonzalez told the man on a cell phone that he was backing a car out of the garage and instructed the man to back his own car into the driveway.
Investigators then executed a search warrant at Gonzalez’s residence, where they found a large sum of cash and an additional 155 pounds of marijuana.
Gonzalez is being held in lieu of a $100,000 cash bond. If convicted of first degree drug trafficking, he faces up to life in prison.
The case was investigated by the DEA’s Kansas City Interdiction Task Force. It is being prosecuted by Assistant Prosecutor Joe Vanover.
The charge against Gonzalez is merely an accusation, and Gonzalez is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.