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STAMFORD, Conn.-A.P.-Dialing the wrong number landed Archie Tarantino in jail.
Trying to dial a drug dealer’s pager Friday morning, he instead beeped a cop, who took an order for two bags of heroin.
Stamford Officer Colin Norris called state police Officer James McAuliffe, who called Tarantino back.
“He assumed I was the guy he had just paged,” McAuliffe said. “I pretended I was his contact person, that I would meet him with the narcotics.”
Police arrested Tarantino, 35, after allegedly finding a $20 bag of heroin in his van. He was charged with drug possession.
Tarantino admitted he paged someone to purchase heroin, and did not realize he misdialed, police said.
