A Deland man was detained after being stopped with cocaine and a pill intended for sale.
An officer on patrol saw 47-year-old Renico Jerome Guyton pull a red Dodge Durango onto County Road 466A around 8:40 p.m. Saturday, according to an arrest report from the Fruitland Park Police Department. The vehicle’s right-side tag light was out, rendering that side of the license plate unreadable.
After halting Guyton on Drake Drive, the officer requested his driver’s license. He looked through his wallet for a few seconds before confessing he didn’t have one. Instead, he handed over an identification card. He also acknowledged fiddling with the lamp to turn it on, according to the report.
Guyton indicated that the automobile belonged to his “auntie,” although he did not know where she lived. She no longer resides at the address listed on the registration. He also declined to say where he resided beyond “up the road,” according to the report.
During his quest for insurance, he briefly unlocked the center console. The officer observed two plastic baggies, which he instantly assumed contained narcotics. According to the report, they had an unfamiliar pattern that he recognized as typical with narcotic packaging.
The officer then rounded the truck and opened Guyton’s door, telling him to get out. He looked down at the gear shifter and appeared to be moving his hand toward it, so the officer ordered him to leave at the taser point. He complied and was put in handcuffs, according to the report.
The officer recovered the narcotics from the center console after receiving positive confirmation from the K-9. He assumed it was crack cocaine and half a pill of acetaminophen and oxycodone hydrochloride. According to the report, both baggies had identical marks indicating different sorts of guns.
The officer also discovered a medium plastic bag in the driver’s door pocket, which contained 50 empty plastic baggies. The bulk of them had the same markings as the baggies on the middle console, but others featured happy faces. A digital scale with suspected methamphetamine residue was discovered in a pocket behind the front passenger seat, according to the report.
A later check on Guyton’s driving record revealed 16 fines dating back to 2012. His license had been revoked several times for possessing prohibited narcotics. According to the report, his license was revoked for 60 months on June 13, 2013, and June 1, 2016, because he was a frequent traffic offender.
Guyton has eight past convictions for driving on a suspended license. On July 13, he was arrested for felony possession of a handgun and driving with a suspended license. According to the report, he was in possession of a substantial amount of an unknown crystalline material, which was submitted for additional testing.
The Georgia native was eventually arrested for possession of cocaine with intent to sell, possession of oxycodone with intent to sell, possession of drug paraphernalia, and driving while license suspended (habitual offender, ninth offense). He was booked into the Lake County Jail without bond.
He was also arrested in April 2019 for a traffic crime, September 2018 for a traffic offense, July 2017 for pistol possession, February 2016 for a traffic offense, and June 2014 for narcotics charges.
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