Case dismissed against two held for 3,000 oxycodone pills
Published 9:55 pm Thursday, September 15, 2016
COLUMBUS – The court case against Jose Varata Vazquez and Ranier Viladrell-Munoz was dismissed last week during a Polk County Superior Court session after a motion to suppress videotape evidence of the vehicle stop was granted.
Vazquez and Viladrell-Munoz were arrested by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office in August 2015 along I-26 after officers pulled them over for failing to maintain a lane.
Once the vehicle was stopped, officers said they became suspicious of the occupants and searched the vehicle to discover approximately 3,000 dosage units of oxycodone inside a container in the vehicle.
The charges against the two men, which included maintaining a vehicle to keep a controlled substance, trafficking a schedule II controlled substance and conspiracy to traffic a controlled substance, were dismissed during last week’s superior court trial.
The two men had been held in custody under $300,000 bonds each.