Henry Lee Bennett
Federal authorities have arrested Chattanooga cocaine dealer Henry Lee Bennett.
Agents said a confidential informant alerted them that Bennett, 26, was dealing in cocaine. A controlled buy was arranged last Thursday.
It was the third controlled cocaine purchase from Bennett over a period of five months, it was stated.
A meeting was arranged at the Mapco gas station on Highway 58.
The informant was given $2,400 for the buy and was also wearing a recording device.
Bennett called and moved the meeting to the Kangaroo Express next to Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Agents saw Bennett leave his residence and he and another black male got into a maroon Chevy pickup truck. The truck was followed to the Kangaroo, where Bennett got out of the passenger side. He entered the informant's vehicle.
Bennett said he was traveling to "A" the next morning "to pick up a brick." Agents said that meant he was going to Atlanta to pick up a kilogram of cocaine. He said he had plenty of cocaine if more was needed. The drug transaction then took place.
Agents stopped the truck a short distance away. Bennett was found with an ounce of cocaine, marked money from the controlled buy, a cell phone and a digital scale.
He told agents he had been selling cocaine as long as he could remember, dating to his first drug arrest.