Brea : 3 Charged With Selling Cocaine at Pizza Parlor

A Brea pizza parlor owner and two of her employees were arrested and charged with selling small amounts of cocaine to undercover police officers at the restaurant, authorities said Thursday.

Mary Lou Orozco, 45, of Covina and employees Edward Draudt, 19, and Cindy Arlene McCombs, 29, both of Brea, were booked Wednesday afternoon into Orange County Jail, where they were held on $25,000 bail each, according to Brea Police Lt. Bill Lentini.

Less than a gram of cocaine, as well as checks and paper work that allegedly documented cocaine sales, were seized from the Red Devil Pizza Parlor at 131 S. Kraemer, where Brea detectives served a search warrant, Detective Mike Messina said. The three were arrested on warrants charging them with cocaine sales, police said.

Undercover Brea detectives had made several purchases of cocaine in small quantities over the past three months, Messina said, often at the pizzeria’s front counter cash register.