A dim-witted drug dealer tipped cops off to his scheme after he reported his missing heroin to the lost-and-found at a rental car company — claiming he’d left a bag of “medicine” in the ride, police sources said.
Dope-hauling doofus Carlos Taverez, 30, of the Bronx left 250 packets of heroin in a Chevrolet Cruze he returned to a Budget Rental Car Agency at Newark Liberty International Airport on April 1, Port Authority spokesman Joseph Pentangelo said.
Nervous his massive stash would get tossed, he called the car rental firm to report he’d left “children’s medicine” in the car, Pentangelo said.
Workers at the car company quickly discovered the junk — worth $2,500 and labeled “Fat Boy” — was no Pedialyte, so they reported it to Port Authority Police, sources said.
When Taverez showed up at car firm the next day to retrieve his bag, undercover cops — dressed as rental car workers — were waiting.
They asked him to fill out “lost and found” paperwork then slapped cuffs on him after he fingered the black bag as his own, the police sources said.
Taverez was charged with heroin possession with intent to sell, police sources said.
The lame-brained dealer picked up the Chevy from a Budget Rental Car Agency in Hell’s Kitchen on March 1, police sources said. He told the rental firm he had driven to Boston.
Port Authority Detective Lawrence Mays and other cops found a total of 89 grams of heroin in the bag.
“This investigation reflects Port Authority Detectives’ patience and diligence,” Pentangelo said.