“Candy Man” Busted for Selling Drugs Out of Snack Truck

ST. LUCIE COUNTY, FLORIDA — Today, detectives at the Port St. Lucie Police Department announced the arrest of Radames Guzman aka “The Candy Man” after a sting revealed he was selling drugs out of his mobile snack food truck.

Guzman told police that he began selling fentanyl, cocaine, marijuana and psilocybin mushrooms from his snack truck to offset the bad economy. After obtaining a search warrant, detectives raided the “Xotic Snackz” truck parked at the 1300 block of Southwest Gatlin Boulevard and seized the following:

Guzman was arrested and charged with 22 drug-related crimes including trafficking in fentanyl, trafficking in cocaine, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of drug equipment, possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana over 20 grams, and use of a 2-way communication device to facilitate a felony.

50 years ago in St. Petersburg the ice cream trucks that jingled all over town were mostly driven by big hairy men with Pagan colors. They cheerily sold ice cream to the little kids and drugs to the older kids. I never heard of them getting busted so they must have had a good business plan.

“I never heard of them getting busted so they must have had a good business plan.”

They probably donated more to the “widows and orphans fund” than Mr. Guzman did.

This reminded me of an incident at a Grateful Dead concert back in the '80s. I worked for the promoter so I was floating around. Came out the backstage entrance and 4 or 5 uniform cops plus a couple of our security guys were standing there staring out of an archway toward the walk in front of the stage. This was an outdoor amphitheater. The show hadn't started yet and it was still broad daylight.

I asked, what's up? Look at that, I was told. A guy was parading up & down the area stage front with a sign draped on his shoulders. It had front & back placards that read; Joints $X.00/ea, Acid $X.00/hit, Speed $X.00/hit & a couple other things. He had a white, pocketed cash/product carry apron tied around his waist. Couldn't believe it, even for a Dead show it was way blatant. I never found out how he managed to get that sign set up in.

What are you going to do about it, I asked. About then a couple of our T-Shirt security guys got to him & walked him over to us and out sight of the crowd were he was instantly cuffed. "There's Nothing Like A Grateful Dead Concert" ;O)

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