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<\/div>\nIllegal narcotics were discovered in a customer’s food at the restaurant, cops said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
A restaurant employee in New Mexico, US, was arrested after he lost his bag of cocaine that somehow landed up on a customer’s hot dog, police said on Sunday. According to New York Post<\/em><\/a>, the man, identified as 54-year-old Jeffrey David Salazar, was working at Sonic Drive-In restaurant. He is now facing a felony charge for possession of a controlled substance, the Espanola Police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n As per the cops, illegal narcotics were discovered in a customer’s food at the restaurant. The substance was inadvertently placed in the food as Mr Salazar was preparing the order. Police said that a “field test” confirmed that the substance discovered in the food was cocaine.\u00a0<\/p>\n In the incident report, the cops said that a woman called the police on Tuesday after she bit into her food only to discover she had bitten into a plastic bag. She believes any of the powered substance went into her mouth.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to the arrest warrant, Mr Salazar was observed on video surveillance conducting “what appeared to be a hand-to-hand transaction with a female employee”. He was even seen preparing the customer’s food before appearing to frantically search the area “as if he lost something”.<\/p>\n According to the Post<\/em>, Mr Salazar admitted to the police that he purchased the cocaine from someone in the restaurant’s parking lot. \u00a0<\/p>\n