Danville man asks police for ride home, forgets about cocaine in pocket
By Robert Salonga
Contra Costa Times
Posted: 10/20/2010 06:50:59 AM PDT
A 19-year-old Danville man was arrested in Redwood City after he asked a policeman for a transbay ride home but forgot about the cocaine he had, the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office reported.
Authorities say Ongley Raymond Ocon III had left a party in San Carlos early Sunday when he walked up to a Redwood City patrol car and pressed his face against the driver’s side window, said Chief Deputy District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe. The officer rolled his window down and asked what Ocon wanted. He said he needed a ride home to Danville.
Wagstaffe said the officer then asked Ocon if he was carrying anything illegal.
"He said yes, but then paused and said no," Wagstaffe said.
The conflicting answers prompted the officer to ask Ocon if he could search him, and Ocon consented, Wagstaffe said. That resulted in the discovery of a bindle of cocaine — which usually contains less than a gram — in one of his pockets.
Ocon was charged with felony possession of cocaine and was scheduled for arraignment today.
