Camero v. State

Ruffin, Judge.

A jury found Santos Camero guilty of felony theft by taking: Camero appeals his conviction, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence, the trial court’s admission of similar transaction evidence, its failure to suppress his statement to police, and the court’s ruling concerning a comment made by the prosecutor during closing argument. For reasons that follow, we affirm.

1. Viewed in a light most favorable to the jury’s verdict, 1 the evidence showed that Camero’s conviction stemmed from a drug deal in which he was supposed to sell 500 Ecstasy pills. The deal was set up by an…