Osceola County Jail, Florida: It is generally good to take things that people tell you in prison with a pinch of salt, unless of course it is a message on the prison phone telling you that your call is being recorded.
A 300-pound alleged drug trafficker chose not to suspend his disbelief when he revealed the whereabouts of two ounces of cocaine when he called his mother from Osceola County jail.
In the course of the conversation, Franco Mayernik’s mother asked if he had left anything at Spank’s house, he told her about the two ounces of powder in a cushion on Spank’s couch – and the rest, as they say is history.
According to The Orlando Sentinel, a detective recorded the following in his arrest report:
I listened to the phone conversation and heard his mother ask him if he left anything at Spank’s house. Franco told his mother he left two ounces of powder in the cushion on the couch. ‘Powder’ is street terminology for cocaine.
Deputies arrived at the Spank residence a few hours later after Mayernik’s sister left the home empty-handed and asked Christopher “Spank” Eaton and Alexandria Dykes if they could come in and have a look around. At the risk of sounding critical, if the deputies in question are asking for permission to come inside, chances are that it is because they do not yet have the authority to do so.
If the caliber of Mayernik’s alleged accomplices is anything to go by, there is little wonder why he was busted in the first place.
After the deputies requested entry, Dykes replied:
Sure, come in and search whatever you want. We are going to cooperate with you. We don’t need any more trouble.
At the conclusion of the search of the living room, detectives had not found the powder they were looking for, but they did find four ecstasy pills, so they asked if they could search the rest of the house.
Dykes agreed, but wanted to take her dog out of her bedroom first. That was when the deputies saw her taking two bags of powder, containing 57 grams of cocaine and 2 grams of oxycodone, out of a pair of shoes.
The arrest report continued:
Eaton spontaneously stated, ‘Look, man, I am sorry we lied to you. … Franco has never done anything for me so I figured I would just go to Polk County and sell this to make some money.’
The discovery of the powder added a cocaine trafficking charge to the list of 15 misdemeanors and felonies, including trying to kill or injure a police dog, that stemmed from his recent arrest.
Eaton and Dykes were subsequently charged with cocaine trafficking, possession of marijuana, possession of controlled substances without a prescription and drug paraphernalia. Bail for each of them was set at $50,000.
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