“On December 31 ... a local woman reached out through text messaging to someone she believed was a drug dealer. The woman was looking for fentanyl to purchase before leaving town,” the Bay County Sheriff’s Office said in a Jan. 6 news release. “She had accidentally reached the phone of a narcotics investigator at the Bay County Sheriff’s Office.”
A tech-challenged Florida woman accidentally texted a cop instead of her drug dealer to buy fentanyl — unwittingly narcing herself out, according to police who arrested her.
Unknown to Wells, she had accidentally reached the phone of a narcotics investigator with the Bay County Sheriff’s Office.
The incident unfolded at a local gas station where law enforcement orchestrated an undercover operation following the misguided communication.
Ramero M. Randolph, 36, sold fentanyl to a man who thought he was buying cocaine, resulting in the deaths of the buyer and a woman, a report states.
A Florida woman was arrested after accidentally texting a narcotics investigator while trying to buy drugs, authorities said.
A Florida woman was trying to buy fentanyl when she accidentally texted a narcotics detective, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office reports. Darwin Brandis Getty Images/iStockphoto A holiday drug ...