- September 16, 2024
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Nervous ticks
6:48 a.m. — intersection of Belle Terre Parkway and Braddock Lane, Palm Coast
Drug possession. A man and a woman were both arrested after their nervous behavior while near a cop gave them away.
The two suspects were gassing up their truck at a gas station when a Sheriff’s Office deputy pulled into a spot near them. The deputy immediately noticed the two kept looking at his squad car and acting nervous, which caused the deputy to pay closer attention to them, according to an arrest report.
As the two left the gas station, the deputy pulled them over when they did not stop at a stop sign, the report said. The deputy, and two officers who arrived for backup, talked to the couple and saw, through the truck window, meth crystals in a jar in the driver seat.
The deputies searched the truck and found over nine grams of meth, fentanyl, THC vape cartridges and other drug paraphernalia. Both suspects were arrested.
Bagged to-go
3:45 p.m. —Interstate 95, near mile marker 284, Flagler County
Possession, intent to sell. A Florida Highway Patrol officer pulled over two men for the tint on their Challenger’s window only to find over 60 pounds of drugs in the car.
The officer pulled them over on I-95 and, while talking to the two men smelled an “overwhelmingly strong” odor of marijuana and saw marijuana residue on the driver’s shirt. This prompted a search of the car, according to the men’s arrest reports.
When a second officer arrived for backup, the two searched the car and found 129.5 grams of THC cartridges, cocaine, marijuana and LSD. In the trunk, the officer found a large cardboard box and a bag that were filled with separated, smaller bags of THC cartridges.
The THC cartridges from the trunk weighed a combined total of 27,329 grams, or just over 60 pounds. Both men were charged with drug possession charges while the passenger — who owned the Challenger — was also charged with trafficking and intent to sell.
