Amador County – The Amador County Combined Narcotics Enforcement Team arrested two El Dorado County men on Dec. 21, including an “ecstasy” drug dealer and a robbery suspect, after a sting operation was arranged to purchase 100 pills from the dealer, at a parking lot in Plymouth.

Amador County Undersheriff Jim Wegner released details of the investigation and arrests Wednesday, saying that “among several investigations during the month of December 2011, the Amador County Combined Narcotics Enforcement Team (ACCNET) conducted an investigation involving the sales of Methylene-Dioxy-Meth-Amphetamine (MDMA) known more commonly as Ecstasy.”

Wegner said the “suspect, Gerardo Ramos Gonzalez, 22, of El Dorado was arrested at the scene” of an arranged drug purchase “and booked into the Amador County Jail, charged with sales of a controlled substance, possession for sale of a controlled substance and transportation of a controlled substance.”

Wegner said “ACCNET then executed a search warrant at Gonzalez’s residence,” in the 6000 block of El Dorado Street in unincorporated El Dorado, about 4 miles southwest of Placerville, in El Dorado County. “During the execution of that search warrant, Joseph Dwayne Walters, 33, of El Dorado was contacted and detained, and subsequently arrested and booked into the El Dorado County Jail on an active El Dorado County arrest warrant for robbery.”

During the “investigation an ACCNET agent was successful in completing two undercover purchases of MDMA from a suspected Ecstasy dealer,” Wegner said. “During the undercover investigation the suspect was marketing the MDMA” as “Molly” pills “which is indicative of pure MDMA. The suspect represented that he could sell quantities of Molly ranging from 100 to 200 pills.”

On Dec. 21, “an undercover agent arranged a transaction of 100 MDMA pills to occur that evening in a parking lot in Plymouth. The suspect arrived as arranged and was detained without incident by Amador County Sheriff’s Deputies and ACCNET Agents.”

Wegner said a “search of the suspect resulted in the recovery of a fictitious Pepsi can with a hidden compartment. The can contained a baggy, which contained 100 MDMA capsules.”

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