DELAND, Fla. (WFLA) — A suspect in a drug sale investigation in Volusia County made a valiant effort to evade police, however fell slightly brief.
Regulation enforcement was executing a search warrant at a home on Lingering Lane in DeLand when one of many suspects, 35-year-old James Burges, was seen leaving the scene in a automobile earlier than being stopped by SWAT.
Detectives discovered a “trafficking quantity” of fentanyl, cocaine, capsules and a loaded firearm within the automobile, the Volusia Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned.
Whereas Burges was being arrested, his girlfriend, 34-year-old Nicole Wert, fled along with her brother on an electrical scooter.
Helicopter video reveals the 2 using tandem away from the scene earlier than taking a spill and being apprehended by regulation enforcement.
Wert was charged with the sale and supply of fentanyl, her brother has not been charged right now.
Burges is being held with out bond on costs of armed trafficking in fentanyl, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of cocaine with intent to promote, possession of alprazolam and narcotic paraphernalia and renting a construction for drug gross sales.
