Police: Suspect said he was ‘biggest drug dealer at UCF’
Authorities arrested a man last week who claimed to be the “biggest drug dealer at UCF” but said he wanted to change his life, according to an arrest affidavit.
The investigation of Patrick Munoz, 18, began in November, when police responded to an LSD overdose on the University of Central Florida campus. They found two students — one of whom had to be hospitalized — who admitted to taking several tabs of the hallucinogen earlier in the night. One told police he had bought the LSD from a man named Patrick at a campus dorm, according to arrest documents.
On Dec. 4, police spoke with another man who told authorities he could provide information on a drug dealer named Patrick, according to court documents. The man set up a deal via Snapchat to buy an ounce of marijuana from the dealer. Police said they pulled Munoz over on a traffic infraction while he was on the way to the deal. They found two bags of marijuana in his car, records show.
He consented to a search of his dorm room, but no drugs were found, authorities said.
“I informed Munoz I was aware he had been selling drugs on campus all semester and I believed he stashed his drugs somewhere before the incident,” a detective wrote in an arrest affidavit. “Munoz eventually admitted ... that he was the ‘biggest’ drug dealer at UCF and he had sold thousands of dollars worth of drugs on campus.”
Munoz told police he hid his drugs at a friend’s apartment at The Marquee near campus. Police searched that apartment and found 283 grams of marijuana and two strips of LSD, records show. He told authorities he cooperated because he wanted to stop selling drugs.
Munoz, of Miami, was arrested on charges of possession of LSD and possession of marijuana with intent to sell. He posted bond and was released from the Orange County Jail. He could not be reached for comment.