14 arrested in Penn State cocaine ring scandal
Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday and former acting DEA Administrator Derek Maltz weigh in on a large-scale cocaine trafficking operation at Penn State University. Authorities arrested fourteen individuals, including current and former students, for running a drug ring that used popular cash apps and Snapchat to distribute cocaine.
I’d like to think there’s one officer that attended the meeting where an undercover drug bust was being discussed that raised a concern about using a person with an alias of “Crooked Jess” to buy the drugs.
I give a tip of the cap to that officer. The rest of the officers at the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office who were part of setting this undercover operation up and didn’t listen owe the officer an apology.
Back in March, “Crooked Jess” aka Jessica Straubel Sanchez made off with $60 she was given to purchase crack cocaine and disappeared, according to an arrest affidavit.
Ninth Circuit Director of Court Services Rob Bains meets with Pinellas County sheriff deputies in the courtroom at the Pinellas County Criminal Justice Center in Clearwater, Fla., on Monday, May 9, 2011, before the start of the Casey Anthony trial. (Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
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Police finally caught up with the 41-year-old and arrested her on Saturday, reports The Smoking Gun. The undercover officer explained that Straubel was supposed to return with crack cocaine after being given $60 to buy it.
The officer watched as she walked over to the residence and went into the backyard. After an hour, which the officer pointed out is “more than a reasonable amount of time to wait for a narcotics transaction to occur between two subjects,” she failed to return.
Stock image of woman with drugs in her pocket. (Getty Images)
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“Crooked Jess” had allegedly lived up to her name. She was nowhere to be found after officers drove around the area and came up empty. They also had no way of getting in touch with her because she “did not own a phone.”
It was determined after a short search for her that she “had no intentions of coming back to facilitate the transaction and had deprived me of my money for her own use.”
A truly shocking twist to the otherwise foolproof undercover operation meant to score some illicit narcotics from a known residence known for facilitating such activity.
A Pinellas County sheriff deputy is parked outside the County Supervisor of Elections Office on Oct. 25, 2020, in St. Petersburg, Fla. The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said it would station deputies outside five polling locations after armed security guards were seen at a polling site last week. (Getty Images)
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TSG reports that along with the theft, “Crooked Jess” was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia. An officer had allegedly found fentanyl residue on some foil she had tucked away “within the defendant’s undergarments.”
As you may have guessed, this wasn’t her first run-in with the police. She’s had others. Call me a dreamer if you must, but my hope is that she hasn’t been part of her last undercover drug bust. I’d like to see “Crooked Jess” be given a second chance here to make things right.