MiamiHerald.com:
For a guy who escaped an assassination attempt while married to a future “Real Housewives of Miami” television star and who once snitched on a notorious drug kingpin, Pedro Rosello’s arrest proved pretty low key.RELATED: Bank seeks to oust ex-’Real Housewives of Miami’ star from Miami Beach home
Rosello, 52, was picked up last week during a traffic stop in Florida City with two kilos of cocaine that federal agents say he admitted he was going to sell, according to a complaint filed in U.S. federal court.
The five page-complaint, signed by Drug Enforcement Administration special agent Joshua Evans, said agents received a tip last week that Rosello intended to sell five kilograms of cocaine, and they successfully set up a sting on Wednesday that ended with Rosello’s arrest after a traffic stop.
“Rosello gave verbal consent for law enforcement to search the vehicle. A K-9 search was conducted and the K-9 alerted on the rear passenger seat of the vehicle,” the complaint says.
Federal agents said they found two kilos of cocaine under the back seat and that Rosello was taken to the Homestead Police Department for questioning. His first Miami court appearance was on Monday.
For Rosello, last week’s arrest is a footnote to a life story that included marriage to Alexia Echevarria, who went on to the bright lights of television.
Once a confidential informant himself, Rosello was more widely known as Luis Mendez during the Cocaine Cowboy heydeys of the 1980s. His nickname was “Pegy.” He once tipped off DEA agents and U.S. marshals to the whereabouts of cocaine kingpin Sal Magluta, who was hiding out as a fugitive at his La Gorce Island mansion in 1991.
The next year Rosello married Alexia Figueredo, as she was then named, who went on to become a “Real Housewives” star. The day their son Pedro was born at Palmetto General Hospital in Hialeah, Colombian assassins allegedly sent by Magluta were hunting him down.
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