TRAFFIC STOP FOR EXPIRED REGISTRATION NETS HEROIN TRAFFICKING ARRESTS

Matt Boster

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Posted by: Matt Boster
Date: Mar 17 2020 12:50 PM

A traffic stop on a car with an expired registration led to the arrests of two men on charges of

trafficking in heroin, and more.

A third person, 28-year old Jessica Foster, was also arrested.

An Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy pulled over the driver of the car in a parking lot off Beal

Parkway March 15th around 3:30 p.m. A passenger in the back seat, later identified as 37-year old

Thomas Mearns (no known address), started to run but stopped and came back.

A search was conducted after an OCSO K9 alerted on the car.

Deputies found a backpack with the wallet of the driver, 31-year old Jeremy Sullivan of Fort Walton

Beach, along with a digital scale, heroin and suspected Alprazolam.

There was also a black sunglass case in the vehicle with used syringes, heroin, a glass pipe,

methamphetamine, cocaine and suspected Buprenorphine near where Mearns had been sitting, next to

yet another glass pipe.

In addition, deputies found a black and white coin purse with heroin, meth, and suspected Alprazolam

in between Foster’s seat and the center console, as well as a black purse with assorted drug paraphernalia

where she had been sitting.

Sullivan is charged with trafficking in heroin, possession of a controlled substance, driving with a

suspended or revoked license, and passion of drug paraphernalia.

Mearns is charged with trafficking in heroin, possession of cocaine, possession of a controlled

substance, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Foster is charged with possession of a controlled substance.

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