Mansfield, OHIO: Drug Bust Turns Up Illegal Alien Selling Cars (African Alien Absconder)

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MANSFIELD, Ohio -- Sgt. Mike Bammann had no reason to think there was anything unusual about Daouda Doucoure when the METRICH Enforcement Unit recently arrested him.

Doucoure, 35, who has a listed address in Columbus, was charged with aggravated drug trafficking for reportedly selling a pound of marijuana.

It seemed like just another drug bust.

"We made a case on him," Bammann said. "We really didn't get much farther than that."

Police later learned Doucoure has a checkered history.

"We found out that he was an African national," Bammann said. "We found out that a federal task force in Cleveland was looking for him. He was on a deportation list."

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Posted by tyne at October 5, 2007