Lee County sheriff’s deputies arrested three people on a slew of drug charges after a vehicle chase Thursday.
Sheriff Brian Estes said narcotics agents attempted on Thursday to stop a BMW driven by Randall Lewis Fore on Sheriff Watson Road. According to Estes, Fore didn’t stop and instead attempted to flee, at one point running off the road into a wooded area. As Fore got back onto the road, he is alleged to have nearly struck a deputy.
The chase ended when Fore rammed into a patrol vehicle.
Inside Fore’s vehicle, deputies allegedly found nearly an ounce of fentanyl, 2.5 ounces of marijuana, 13 strips of Buprenorphine, three Morphine pills, a Glock 21 pistol with magazines including a 40 round drum, and “other items of drug paraphernalia.”
Fore, 33, was charged with fleeing to elude arrest, trafficking fentanyl by possession and transport, possession of a firearm by a felon, possession of a schedule IV controlled substance, possession with intent to sell and deliver a schedule III controlled substance, maintaining a vehicle for controlled substances, two counts of assault on a government official, and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was also apparently wanted for unspecified outstanding warrants, Estes said.
Two passengers in Fore’s vehicle, 39-year-old Morgan Seymour and 31-year-old Thomas Brumley, were charged with multiple felony and misdemeanor drug charges.
Fore, Seymour and Brumley were each placed in the Lee County Jail without bond.
If they stopped more people who were speeding, running a red light, or their truck was Carolina Squat looking, or their windows were too darkly tinted, they’d get a lot more drug busts.
This is true, has anyone noticed how many peoples inspection stickers are expired ? How do they get away with it ?
I agree,
Talk of speeding?! We sat in chairs on Main Street where limit is 20mph, for several hours..These are the statistices – The Speedgun pro caught (25 drivers going over 45mph)….(90 drivers going over 40mph)….(151 drivers going over 35mph)….There were too many to count who went over 30mph….ONLY 16 drivers obeyed the speed limit of 20mph….Bust the speeders on that street, and, you’ll most likely find countless others carrying drugs or intoxicated!!!!