People v. Alvarez CA4/1

STATEMENT OF FACTS

The facts of the offense are well summarized in the statement of facts in appellant’s opening brief. We will include them here for convenience. A. The Prosecution Case The prosecution’s first witness, San Diego Police Department Officer Joseph Charlot, testified about an undercover narcotics buy-bust operation that he was involved with on November 13, 2019, in the East Village area of downtown San Diego. On that date, Officer Charlot was working in an undercover capacity downtown in the Crime Suppression Team. Officer Charlot’s objective was to purchase a controlled substance from whoever would sell it to him. At approximately, 10:00 a.m., Officer Charlot arrived in the East Village area wearing a recording device and with prerecorded bills which he had logged all of the currency serial numbers down. At approximately 10:00 a.m., at the intersection of 14th and Imperial streets, Officer Charlot told an African-American male that he was looking for

2 someone to sell him a “dub of crys.” Officer Charlot testified that a “dub” was $20 worth, “crys” was crystal methamphetamine. The African-American male told him that he would take him to find someone to sell him…