Fairfield Traffic Officer Stumbles Onto A Car Filled With Drugs

FAIRFIELD - A traffic stop Monday was bad news for one driver and a lucky break for another, Fairfield police said.

When Officer Ryan Parodi pulled over a driver for a moving violation around 4:30 p.m. Monday, the driver pulled next to another vehicle in a parking lot at North Texas Street and East Pacific Avenue, Officer Cleo
Mayoral said.

As Parodi walked up to the car that he pulled over, he saw a passenger in the other vehicle next to it counting money and sorting through canisters of marijuana, Mayoral said.

The driver of that car saw Parodi and tried to hide items in the vehicle, Mayoral said.

Parodi gave the traffic stop driver a quick warning and turned his attention to the two men in the other car, Mayoral said.

Police found a loaded .45-caliber handgun on the floorboard of the vehicle, containers and packages of Xanax pills, Ecstasy pills, methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana and $1,400 in cash, Mayoral said.

Parodi arrested the driver, Kenny Xyrus Losito, 27, of Fairfield, on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of drugs for sale, according to Mayoral.

The passenger, Justin Cruz Acuyong, 22, of Suisun City, was arrested on drug offenses. 

Both men were booked into Solano County Jail.

-Bay City News, image via Fairfield police