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Man Charged With St. Pete Cocaine Delivery

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By ELAINE SILVESTRINI | The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 18, 2008

TAMPA - Federal authorities have charged a man with trying to deliver 6 kilograms of cocaine from Broward County to a St. Petersburg man.

Kevin Negus Patterson was arrested this morning after a Pinellas County Sheriff's Deputy saw his car tailgating another car as it headed north on Interstate 275 near the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, according to a federal complaint.

Patterson gave the deputy permission to search his silver Chevrolet Impala, and "Watson," a drug-sniffing dog detected narcotics, the complaint states. Two detectives found six kilograms of cocaine "secreted within the headliner of the vehicle," the complaint states.

Patterson told authorities he was delivering the cocaine to Lunch Markinley Philentrope in St. Petersburg. He said he'd delivered more than 20 kilograms to Philentrope in the last two months, the complaint states.

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