Suspected drug dealer busted by South Shore's task force

A South Lake Tahoe man was arrested Tuesday for possession of $850 worth of cocaine for sale. SLEDNET, the South Shore's multi-agency drug task force, made the arrest.

SLEDNET found Ramon Rodriguez Ahumada, 41, walking between his house at the 3000 block of Riverside Avenue and a neighbor's residence. Ahumada had 27 bindles, small paper packets, of cocaine in his shirt pockets.

"We made contact with him and he was carrying this dope," Task Force Cmdr. Chris Elliott said. "Next door we found a line of coke and a scale."

Elliott said SLEDNET obtained a warrant to search Ahumada's house after they made purchases of cocaine there.

Ahumada also had a warrant out of San Jose, Calif., for violation of probation on a drunken driving charge, Elliot said.

"It's like it's flip-flopped," he said. "We've been getting a lot more coke lately. Every seizure since that wire-tapping case has been coke."

In May, after an investigation that involved three wire taps, SLEDNET arrested 12 men involved in a methamphetamine drug ring that was based in South Lake Tahoe and Santa Rosa, Calif.