Florida drug dealers crash when riding tandem on a scooter to escape drug bust
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DeLand, FL - A suspect in a drug sale investigation in Volusia County made a valiant effort to evade police, but fell a little short.
Law enforcement was executing a search warrant at a house on Lingering Lane in DeLand when one of the suspects, 35-year-old James Burges, was seen leaving the scene in a car before being stopped by SWAT.
Detectives found a “trafficking amount” of fentanyl, cocaine, pills and a loaded firearm in the car, the Volusia Sheriff’s Office said.
While Burges was being arrested, his girlfriend, 34-year-old Nicole Wert, fled with her brother on an electric scooter.
Helicopter video shows the two riding tandem away from the scene before taking a spill and being apprehended by law enforcement.
Wert was charged with the sale and delivery of fentanyl, her brother has not been charged at this time.
Burges is being held without bond on charges of armed trafficking in fentanyl, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of cocaine with intent to sell, possession of alprazolam and narcotic paraphernalia and renting a structure for drug sales.
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