People v. Consuegra

In People v. Consuegra (1994) 26 Cal.App.4th 1726, four defendants were convicted of conspiracy to possess cocaine for sale after police officers observed two of them leaving a condominium in a car, going to a grocery store parking lot to make phone calls using the public phone, greeting another defendant who soon appeared, and leaving to go to a second parking lot. At the second lot, another defendant appeared and drove the vehicle to a home owned by another codefendant who opened the garage door to allow the vehicle to enter. The police immediately detained the defendants and found 200 kilograms of cocaine in the garage and traces of cocaine in a hidden compartment in the vehicle driven from the parking lot to the garage. In the condominium where the surveillance started, the police found another 90 kilograms of cocaine and drug packaging materials. Various other items were found (including pagers, identification with different names, and a fictitious name registration for one of the vehicles) connecting all the defendants to the cocaine.