When customers asked for a high top fade at VIP Barbershop, they might have received more than a fresh new do.
Broward Sheriff's Office officials said that several of the barbers at the South Florida shop used the front to sell marijuana just feet from a middle school.
Two barbers, David Fronseca, 25, and Norman Irizarry were arrested for selling drugs less than 200 feet from James S. Rickards Middle School in Oakland Park.
The shops owner, Felipe Sierra, told police he had no clue his employees were in the drug dealing business, but he was slapped with handcuffs, too because of all the weed found on the premises. Some of it was in plain sight.
A search of the barbershop turned up 17 bags of weed, three glass pipes and a joint that was already rolled and ready to be smoked.
It's unclear how long the barbers were giving out cuts and weed, but deputies caught wind of the operation when Fronseca sold drugs to an informant. Police say during the haircut, Fronseca pulled out a bag of marijuana and handed it to the informant.
Fronseca was charged with possession and intent to sell marijuana within 1000 feet of a school.
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All three were booked into jail and have since bonded out.
