According to court documents, a Virginia Beach storage facility is one of at least four places Robert Lagarde used to run his alleged drug empire. Police say Lagarde would pick up large shipments of cocaine at a house on Clearwood Court.
According to police, an informant said they once saw 10 kilos of cocaine in a bedroom here. News Channel 3 knocked on the door but no one was home. Tara Nolte lives next door and told us the house did not belong to Legarde, it was his girlfriends. Tara said she didn't suspect anything was wrong until she came home one night to see the street blocked by police cars.
"I wondered if something happened to my mom. My dad works nights so I was worried when I saw all these police cars it hit home a little bit."
According to the search warrants police found drugs and more than $3,600 in cash. Investigators think Lagarde only sold drugs to people he knew. One informant called him a kilo-weight dealer and said that he stored the money from the sales at his parents' house. Another search warrant shows they found more than $20,000 in cash here.
Neighbors say that the street that Lagarde lives on is a pretty quiet one - they send their kids down here to play - which is why the news of the bust came as a pretty big shock.
Apparently no one knew what was going on just a few doors away.
According to court documents, Legarde also ran a much smaller operation at his grandparents' house. No word on when he will face a judge on these charges for the first time.
According to police, an informant said they once saw 10 kilos of cocaine in a bedroom here. News Channel 3 knocked on the door but no one was home. Tara Nolte lives next door and told us the house did not belong to Legarde, it was his girlfriends. Tara said she didn't suspect anything was wrong until she came home one night to see the street blocked by police cars.
"I wondered if something happened to my mom. My dad works nights so I was worried when I saw all these police cars it hit home a little bit."
According to the search warrants police found drugs and more than $3,600 in cash. Investigators think Lagarde only sold drugs to people he knew. One informant called him a kilo-weight dealer and said that he stored the money from the sales at his parents' house. Another search warrant shows they found more than $20,000 in cash here.
Neighbors say that the street that Lagarde lives on is a pretty quiet one - they send their kids down here to play - which is why the news of the bust came as a pretty big shock.
Apparently no one knew what was going on just a few doors away.
According to court documents, Legarde also ran a much smaller operation at his grandparents' house. No word on when he will face a judge on these charges for the first time.
