A Walker County jury found Michael Pasuer guilty of possession and sale of cocaine, OCGA § 16-13-30 a, b. Following the denial of his motion for new trial, Pasuer appeals, contending the trial court erred in admitting certain evidence and in refusing to give a requested jury instruction. Finding no error, we affirm. Viewed in favor of the jury’s verdict,1 the evidence showed the following relevant facts. On July 11, 2000, a Lookout Mountain Drug Task Force officer received information from two informants, a male and a female, that Pasuer and his wife were involved in illegal drug sales. The officer, along with other Task Force officers, Georgia Bureau of Investigation special agents, and a federal drug agent collectively, “the officers”, met with the two informants later that day to conduct a “controlled buy” of an ounce of cocaine from the Pasuers. Immediately prior to the transaction, the officers gave the informants specific instructions about where they were to go and how they should conduct themselves during the controlled buy. The informants understood that they were not to use cocaine during the transaction or purchase additional cocaine for their own use. The officers thoroughly searched the informants and their car, and gave the informants $1,100 in government funds to purchase an ounce of cocaine. They also attached an electronic surveillance device to the male informant’s belt so that the officers could listen to and record the drug purchase. The informant testified at trial that he did not touch the device after the officers attached it to his belt. The officers followed the informants to the Pasuers’ residence, then patrolled nearby so they could watch the house and listen to the transmission of the purchase.
The informants entered the home and went to a back room with Pasuer’s wife. Pasuer was asleep on the couch in a separate room. After Pasuer’s wife weighed an ounce of cocaine, the female informant “cut” the cocaine by removing seven grams and replacing it with a different powder.2 She put the seven grams in a separate baggie. After the transaction, the informants went directly to a pre-arranged location and met with the officers. The informants gave the officers two plastic baggies containing a combined total of 32.2 grams of cocaine.3 The officers also retrieved the transmission device and secured the audiotape of the transaction in an evidence bag.
