Tillman County Sheriff Bobby Whittington said the department developed the man as a suspected drug dealer several months ago, at which time he notified the District 3 Drug Task Force who aided the deputies with the case.
Bob Carder of the task force said that agents working for the sheriff's office bought cocaine from the suspect several times, giving officers enough evidence to arrest the suspected drug dealer.
“We don’t like to buy from a dealer one day and arrest him the next,” Carder said. “They can figure out real fast who the informant is and we don’t want that.”
Both Carder and Whittington said the man wasn’t a major supplier in the usual sense of the term, but the arrest put away someone was providing a lot of drugs to the small community.
Carter said Flores had been a problem in Tipton in the past, and before moving to Tipton where he has been working as a farm hand, he lived in Wichita Falls, Texas, and had been arrested on drug charges there.
Flores is still in jail waitiing for his first appearance, but Whittington said he anticipates two counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance to be filed.
If convicted, he could face up to life in prison.
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