FORT WALTON BEACH - A man who pulled out his pants pockets to show a Fort Walton Beach Police officer he wasn't carrying drugs didn't count on a plastic bag of crack falling to the ground.Forgot it was in his pocket, did he? Or did he think the cops were blind?
On July 15 an officer was called to the Rancho Alegre bar on Hollywood Boulevard by employees who had escorted a suspected drug dealer off the premises. The man, Herminio Hurtado-Resendiz, 24, of Destin, told the officer he wasn't dealing in mind-altering substances and voluntarily pulled out his pants pockets.
"I'm not selling drugs, officer. See? My pockets are-- ****!"
The police officer spotted a small plastic bag fall out of Resendiz's right-front pocket and land on the ground. The bag was full of a white, powdery substance that field-tested positive for the coca plant's regret-eating-me toxin.
"Put the bracelets on 'im."
Resendiz was charged with possession of a controlled substance. His court date is Aug. 21.