was this a hit job by the phoenix police to bankrupt Javier Salas and ruin his name??? Original Article Drug charges against owner of bar dropped Carol Sowers The Arizona Republic Mar. 27, 2006 12:00 AM SOUTH PHOENIX - Three years after he was arrested following an undercover drug investigation, charges have been dismissed against the high-profile owner of a south Phoenix sports bar and restaurant. The Arizona Attorney General's Office earlier this month filed a court motion saying that further prosecution of Javier Salas, 52, would not "be in the interests of justice." Lawrence Kazan, Salas' lawyer, said the state dismissed the charges against Salas "because their case was falling apart." If Salas had gone to trial, Kazan said he would have shown that the testimony of three key prosecution witnesses was unreliable. Salas, who built the Cancun Sports Bar and Restaurant at 19th Street and Broadway Road, said in 2004 that he knew nothing about drug deals in his restaurant. Salas; his son, Cesar; restaurant employees; and others were charged after a multi-agency task force conducted an eight-month undercover investigation at the Cancun. Cesar, 25, served seven months of probation in 2004. As part of the sting, officers spent four days in October 2003 trying to negotiate the sale of 480 pounds of marijuana with Cesar. The deal collapsed, but police said tape recordings prove Cesar and his father were central figures in drug deals at the Cancun, which was seized by the state. Javier was not present when the deal went sour, according to records.