A California man who pleaded guilty Tuesday to a narcotics conspiracy charge in U.S. District Court seemed well on his way six years ago to supplying a million-dollar-a-month drug enterprise in Buffalo.

But logistics problems kept Eleazar Martinez Medina in Western New York longer than he wanted.

One day in February 2019, Medina wandered around a suburban Rochester Walmart for nearly three hours waiting for a tractor trailer with 55 pounds of his cocaine to pull into the parking lot.

“Here for (expletive) 11 days” because of “trucks they can’t drive,” he complained later about the truck drivers.

FBI agents heard his complaint because of another of Medina’s problems – although he was unaware of it at the time.

The federal agents had wired for audio and video the hotel room where he met

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