LARGE METH LAB FOUND; 7 ARRESTED
One of
the largest methamphetamine labs
ever found in Volusia County was
raided Thursday morning. Narcotics
agents with search warrants for two
homes found an active
methamphetamine lab in one in Port
Orange and an equipped but inactive
lab in one near New Smyrna Beach. By
the end of the day seven men and
women were arrested on various
drug-related charges and the
homemade lab components and finished
drug products were safely seized.
A
four-month investigation led up to
the 6 a.m. raid when the Volusia
County Sheriff’s Office’s Eastside
Narcotics Task Force and SWAT team
served the search warrants on 1209
Harbour Point Drive, Port Orange and
4129 Treadway Road, New Smyrna
Beach. Once all occupants of the
homes were secured outside,
narcotics agents certified to handle
meth lab materials began their
searches for the volatile lab
materials. Investigators found the
chemicals and equipment needed to
start a meth lab at the Treadway
Road home, but it didn’t look like
production had started there yet.
The Harbour Point Drive home was
actively churning out meth, though,
with 98 grams of meth oil, which was
just one step away from becoming the
finished product, and 22 grams of
meth powder found. The drug sells
for about $100 a gram. In addition
to the active meth lab, a safe full
of various pills – such as Lortab,
Valium and Xanax – was found, with
the drugs all packaged and ready to
be sold.
All
defendants were transported to the
Volusia County Branch Jail in
Daytona Beach. The defendants and
their charges are as follows:
Arrested
at 1209 Harbour Point Drive, Port
Orange
Cecil
Fore, 47, lives on S. Ridgewood
Avenue, Port Orange
-Trafficking in methamphetamines
($50,000 bond)
-Manufacture of methamphetamines
($25,000 bond)
-Possession of listed chemicals
($5,000 bond)
Steven
Johnson, 39, lives at 1209 Harbour
Point Drive, Port Orange
-Warrant arrest: Sale and delivery
of a controlled substance ($15,000
bond)
-Warrant arrest: Sale and delivery
of a controlled substance ($15,000
bond)
-Warrant arrest: Principle to sale
of amphetamines ($15,000 bond)
-Trafficking in methamphetamines
($50,000 bond)
-Two counts of trafficking in a
schedule II narcotic ($50,000 bond
each)
-Manufacture of methamphetamines
($25,000 bond)
-Possession of listed chemicals
($5,000 bond)
-Possession of ammunition by a
convicted felon ($5,000)
-Possession of schedule II pills
($5,000 bond)
-Possession of schedule III pills
($5,000 bond) -Three
counts of possession of schedule IV
pills ($5,000 bond each)
Danny
Montgomery, 61, lives on Dubois
Avenue, Port Orange
-Warrant arrest: Sale of
amphetamines ($15,000 bond)
-Trafficking in methamphetamines (no
bond)
-Manufacture of methamphetamines (no
bond)
-Possession of listed chemicals (no
bond)
-Probation violation (no bond)
Angel
Sommo, 28, lives on S. Ridgewood
Avenue, Edgewater
-Trafficking in methamphetamines
($50,000 bond)
-Manufacture of methamphetamines
($25,000 bond)
-Possession of listed chemicals
($5,000 bond)
-Probation violation (no bond)
Brandy
Tremblay, 33, lives on Aspen Street,
Daytona Beach
-Trafficking in methamphetamines
($50,000 bond)
-Manufacture of methamphetamines
($25,000 bond)
-Possession of listed chemicals
($5,000 bond)
Jason
Wagers, 43, lives on Roosevelt
Boulevard, Daytona Beach
-Trafficking in methamphetamines
($50,000 bond)
-Manufacture of methamphetamines
($25,000 bond)
-Possession of listed chemicals
($5,000 bond)
Arrested
at 4129 Treadway Road, New Smyrna
Beach
Francesco Vezza, 53, lives at 4129
Treadway Road, New Smyrna Beach
-Warrant arrest: Sale of a schedule
II substance ($30,000 bond)
-Warrant arrest: Principle to sale
of amphetamines ($30,000 bond)
The
Eastside Narcotics Task Forces is
multi-agency force of investigators
from the Volusia County Sheriff’s
Office, Daytona Beach Police
Department, Ormond Beach Police
Department, Edgewater Police
Department and New Smyrna Beach
Police Department that shares
resources and crosses jurisdictional
boundaries to combat street-level
drug and vice crimes.
