BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – A suspected drug dealer was taken into custody on Wednesday and deputies found multiple drugs, guns and ammunition inside, according to Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey.
In a release, Ivey said that the sheriff’s office’s SWAT Team and Special Investigations Unit searched a home on Jackson Street in Cocoa — where Terry Suggs, 53, lived — after detectives began an investigation into “illicit drug activities.”
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The release shows that during the search, investigators found the following items and substances:
- 87.1 grams cocaine base
- 33.3 grams cocaine HCL
- 197 grams methamphetamine
- 25.1 grams fentanyl
- 56.6 grams MDMA
- 14.1 grams ecstasy
- 23.4 grams alprazolam
- 92.2 grams MDPV
- Two handguns
- A rifle magazine
- Various amounts of ammunition
“When the SWAT team began executing the search warrant this morning, the big bad brave criminal ran like a coward out the back door,” the release reads. “And after a brief foot chase, he got to ride the lightening (sic) when several members of the Special Investigations Unit chased him on foot and then (Tasered) him!”
Ivey added that Suggs has “a very lengthy and violent criminal history,” having been charged over 100 times with 34 total convictions.
Some of Suggs’ previous charges include aggravated battery, possession of cocaine, sale of cocaine, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and violation of probation, Ivey explained.
“Can someone please tell me how this individual is still out on our streets where he can just keep violating the law and basically making a mockery of our criminal justice system?” Ivey said. “And quite frankly laughing in the face of those who didn’t sentence him to prison where he should be!”
Suggs was ultimately arrested and faces the following charges:
- Resisting arrest without violence
- Possession of a firearm by a convicted felon
- Trafficking in fentanyl
- Trafficking in cocaine
- Trafficking in methamphetamine
- Trafficking in MDMA
- Trafficking in MDPV
- Renting, leasing or owning a property for trafficking
- Possession of drug paraphernalia
- Five counts of possession of a controlled substance
He is held on bond of $173,500.
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