Man Sold Cocaine to Undercover Officers Three Times

A Milwaukee man is facing felony drug charges after he was caught selling cocaine to undercover officers on three occasions in the past six months.

Omar A. Mendoza, 36, was charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court Monday with one count of manufacture and delivery of cocaine, one count of manufacture and delivery of more than 40 grams of cocaine, one count of maintaining a drug trafficking place and one count of possession with intent to deliver a narcotic drug. If convicted, he faces up to 73 ½ years in prison and $210,000 in fines.

According to the criminal complaint:

Undercover law enforcement officers first set up a drug deal with Mendoza on Aug. 24 in which he agreed to sell then two ounces of cocaine for $1,200 in the parking lot of a business in the 600 block of West Oklahoma Avenue. The deal went off without a hitch.

Officers set up another drug deal with Mendoza on Nov. 4, but this time they met him at a Brookfield business in the 300 block of North Moorland Road. Mendoza agreed to sell the undercover officer one ounce of cocaine for $1,200.

Officers set up a third deal with Mendoza on Friday in which he agreed to meet them at a business in the W23400 block of National Avenue in Big Bend. This time he sold the officers two ounces of cocaine for $2,400.

He was pulled over and arrested shortly after the deal took place, the complaint says.

Mendoza was being held in Waukesha County Jail on $5,000 bond.