FARMINGTON – A Farmington man arrested on drug trafficking charges Thursday was back in jail Saturday.
Victor Silva, 23, was one of almost two dozen people arrested last week in an undercover drug sting operation. He was charged with Class B drug trafficking and released on his own recognizance Thursday.
Silva was arrested again Saturday after a resident in an apartment complex on Sawtelle Lane reported a burglary in progress about 2 p.m. The caller reported hearing somebody trying to enter a vacant apartment upstairs.
Andrew Hufnagel of the Farmington Police Department and Cpl. Nathan Bean of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department responded and found Silva descending the steps of the building. During an “officer safety pat down” they found a bottle of liquid Oxycodone in his pocket, police said. There were no signs of forced entry, said Hufnagel.
Hufnagel said Silva did not have a prescription for the 0.25 milliliters of painkiller found in his possession.
Silva said he was visiting people in the apartment across the hall from the vacant one, although Hufnagel said nobody answered when they knocked on the door and it did not appear that anyone was there. Hufnagel also said Silva changed his story about acquiring the Oxycodone, saying he found it and that it had been returned to him by a corrections officer before his release Thursday.
He was charged with violation of conditions of release because he was in possession of Schedule W drugs. He was arraigned in court Monday with bail set at $200, according to a corrections officer.
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