Who knew that a trip to the grocery store could be life-threatening, right? La Mexicana on Ortiz Avenue had the Lee County Sheriff's Office rush over after some guy, Canuto Daniel Alvarado, 33, was pointing a gun at a kid! Crazy, huh? Luckily, the kid was okay and left with his mom, probably scared out of their minds.
According to NBC2, Alvarado pulled a slick move, by going back to his car and hiding his gun. He then strolls back into the store like nothing ever happened. Deputies catch up with him and quickly realize this dude is hammered and packing heat.
Grocery Store Goodies:
But that’s not all. Next to him is a party box of beer. Now, it wasn't Dos Equis, it was Modelo. But it sure made him the most interesting man in the world to the sheriff's deputies because, instead of beer, it’s loaded with drugs! It had 11.7 grams of cocaine, 10.3 grams of heroin, and to top it all off, how about a small bag of prescription pills?
Naturally, the police slap the cuffs on him. Alvarado was hit with a number of charges. Three counts of drug possession, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, and a little disorderly intoxication too. Our Florida man has a rap sheet longer than your grocery store shopping list too. You know like homicide, battery, and burglary.
You’d think after all that, he might try to lay low. But no, Alvarado’s out here, waving guns at kids at the grocery store. Plus carrying around drug-filled beer boxes. Maybe he thought he was being clever, but it’s pretty clear the sheriff’s office wasn’t buying it.
At the end of the day, the kid’s safe, the mom’s probably going to think twice before her next grocery store run. And Alvarado’s behind bars, adding a few more lines to his criminal record.
