Volusia deputies arrested two suspected drug dealers after a drug bust in Deland.
DELAND, Fla. — A suspected drug dealer was arrested while trying to flee a drug bust on a scooter in Volusia County Friday morning.
The Volusia Sheriff’s Office carried out a search warrant Friday at a home at 357 Lingering Lane in DeLand as part of an ongoing drug investigation.
According to the sheriff’s office, deputies observed James Burges, 35, departing the location in a vehicle before SWAT managed to intercept him. Inside the car, authorities discovered fentanyl, powder cocaine, pills, and a loaded firearm, as reported by the sheriff’s office.
While Burges was being apprehended, his girlfriend, 34-year-old Nicole Wert, was seen by the agency’s aerial unit attempting to escape on a scooter with another man, the deputies stated. The aerial video captures them falling off the scooter as they turned onto a road, leading to their capture and arrest.
Wert is facing charges for the sale and distribution of fentanyl. The individual accompanying her on the scooter has not been charged, and his face is blurred in the video presented above.
Burges was charged with armed trafficking of fentanyl, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of cocaine with intent to sell, possession of alprazolam, renting a structure for drug sales, possession of narcotic paraphernalia, driving with a suspended license and failure to appear warrants.
