Welcome to Arrest Stories. A fifty-six-year-old Fort Lauderdale attorney stands accused of orchestrating an elaborate scheme to smuggle over one hundred thirty-six grams of cocaine into a Palm Beach County jail using Bible verses and family photos as cover. Here's what may have happened.
David Casals arrived at the West Detention Center in Palm Beach County on October twenty-fourth, twenty twenty-one, carrying what appeared to be routine legal documents. The papers, neatly organized in a manila folder, were supposedly Spanish-to-English translations of an audio file for murder suspect Pedro Concepcion. However, deputies conducting a routine search noticed something unusual about the thirty-seven sheets of paper.
"I hope there's nothing in there that shouldn't be," one official remarked during the inspection. The papers appeared swollen with suspicious stains resembling water marks from a translucent substance. What deputies discovered would lead to serious criminal charges against the attorney.
The documents contained Bible quotes and pictures of an unknown woman, but laboratory testing revealed a shocking truth. Officials determined that "the portions of the papers tested were saturated with cocaine." The entire collection of thirty-seven pieces weighed over one hundred thirty-six grams, with the drug literally laced into the paper fibers.
Casals was initially arrested in twenty twenty-two on multiple charges including possession of cocaine, delivery of cocaine, and two counts of introducing contraband into a county facility. The case involved fifty-eight thousand dollars and represented what authorities described as a sophisticated smuggling operation disguised as legitimate legal work.
The scheme allegedly involved saturating ordinary paper with liquid cocaine, then allowing it to dry while maintaining the appearance of standard legal documentation. The Bible verses and family photographs were apparently meant to make the materials appear more authentic and less suspicious to jail personnel.
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