A noseless New York man was arrested in Florida for allegedly trafficking drugs after he and his accomplice were found by a drug-sniffing dog.
Charles Wilson Pastore was arrested on September 3 after the white Mercedes-Benz he was riding in was pulled over by police in Fort Lauderdale. According to court documents viewed by Globe, Pastore, 46, was traveling with someone named Nicholas Martiz in the vehicle when it was pulled over for a routine traffic stop.
Martiz, the driver, agreed to let the officer’s K9 unit search the car. The dog quickly hit on a backpack inside the car that contained loose crack cocaine, a scale with white powder residue, a bag with cocaine residue, $3,515.00 in cash of various denominations as well as a semiautomatic handgun with the serial number shaved off…