{"id":20769,"date":"2025-02-07T21:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T21:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=20769"},"modified":"2025-02-07T21:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T21:10:16","slug":"woman-arrested-after-accidentally-texting-sheriffs-office-instead-of-a-drug-dealer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=20769","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested after accidentally texting sheriff’s office instead of a drug dealer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A woman has been arrested after she accidentally texted her Sheriff’s office for drugs on New Year’s Eve.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A 41-year-old woman from Bay County,\u00a0Florida<\/a>, was reportedly caught red handed attempting to buy\u00a0drugs<\/a>\u00a0while driving on a suspended licence in a vehicle littered with drugs paraphernalia – all because she placed her order for fentanyl to a\u00a0cop<\/a>\u00a0instead of her drug dealer.<\/p>\n

According to a Bay County Sheriff’s Office, Wells had accidentally sent text messages to a narcotics investigator who ‘immediately began communicating’ with her while ‘undercover’.<\/p>\n

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Octavia Wells was arrested and charged on December 31 (Bay County Sheriff’s Office\/Facebook)<\/cite><\/div>\n

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The investigator set up the ‘sale’ and when she went to meet who she thought was her drug dealer at a local gas station in Panama City, she was greeted with several officers of the BCSO Special Investigations Division who\u00a0arrested<\/a>\u00a0her instead.<\/p>\n

According to the\u00a0affidavit<\/a>\u00a0of her arrest, the investigator received ‘unsolicited’ messages where Wells used certain language the cop recognized from ‘training and experience to be common in attempting to purchase narcotics.’<\/p>\n

Her message allegedly read that she needed ‘just a couple points’ – referring to 1\/10th of a gram of fentanyl which she intended to buy for\u00a0$45<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During her arrest, officers noted she had been\u00a0driving<\/a>\u00a0with a suspended license and confronted her about her reason for being at the gas station.<\/p>\n

Her car was also searched where a ‘foil’, which is used to take the drug as well as a bag with fentanyl ‘residue’, was found in the driver’s door pocket the affidavit states. Also, a separate piece of burnt foil in a trash bag on the passenger seat, digital scales, fentanyl test strips on the center console with cut straws to smoke fentanyl and another cut straw under the driver’s seat.<\/p>\n

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While Wells was put in the back of a patrol car, another officer spotted another cut straw and piece of tin foil ‘sticking out of her pocket’.<\/p>\n

All the materials were tested which had positive results of the narcotic.<\/p>\n

Speaking to officers, Wells reportedly claimed she was trying to purchase a small amount of fentanyl before checking into\u00a0rehab<\/a>\u00a0that day.<\/p>\n

The woman also reportedly stated she made the error in texting the cop after saving his number under his initials from a previous interaction, which was similar to her drug dealer.<\/p>\n

She was then charged with unlawful use of a two-way communication device, possession of drug paraphernalia and driving with a suspended license.<\/p>\n

According<\/a>\u00a0to Law&Crime, Wells posted bond and was ordered not to possess or consume\u00a0alcoholic<\/a>\u00a0drinks.<\/p>\n

She has also been ordered to submit random urinalysis tests.<\/p>\n

Wells is due to appear before court on January 30.<\/p>\n

UNILAD has contacted Bay County Sheriff’s Office for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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