A Florida man apparently tried putting his faith in the written word, but his particular affirmation didn’t work out as planned. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office says 41-year-old Christopher Herndon wrote, “no police… will come to me,” in a notebook before a SWAT team came directly to his home.

The considerably more serious part of the story is what investigators say they found when they arrived. According to JSO, a search of Herndon’s Jacksonville home resulted in the seizure of 849.2 grams of fentanyl, an amount the agency says represented more than 400,000 potentially lethal doses.

JSO’s Overdose Investigations Unit began looking into Herndon after receiving information that he was selling drugs. Detectives said they learned he was selling fentanyl and eventually built a case that allowed them to obtain a warrant for his Potomac Avenue home on Jacksonville’s Westside.

On August 27, the department’s SWAT team arrived to serve that warrant. In other words, the police Herndon’s notebook insisted wouldn’t be coming had very much arrived.

The Search Turns up a Lot More Than a Notebook

 

Fentanyl wasn’t the only substance investigators said they recovered during the search. JSO listed another 1.33 kilograms of methamphetamine, 1.25 kilograms of powder cocaine, 57.3 grams of crack cocaine and 14.3 grams of marijuana among the items seized.

Officers also recovered nearly $12,000 in cash and seized three vehicles during the operation. The Sheriff’s Office did not list any firearms among the items recovered, something at least one commenter immediately noticed.

Then there was the notebook, which allowed the Sheriff’s Office to offer its own response to Herndon’s apparent prediction. “Not how that works,” the department wrote before warning that its detectives would pursue people bringing large amounts of dangerous drugs into the community.

Herndon now faces a list of charges stemming from the investigation, according to JSO. The department’s post did not provide a complete breakdown of those charges, so exactly what prosecutors will pursue wasn’t specified in the information released.

Comments Have Some Fun With the Failed Prediction

Unsurprisingly, plenty of people found Herndon’s notebook entry difficult to ignore, with one joking that the “affirmation” clearly “didn’t work so well.” Another suggested that if he writes “no judge will give me time” next, perhaps that prediction will have the same effect as his first one.

Others focused more heavily on what investigators recovered, including one person who was surprised that no firearm appeared on JSO’s list despite the quantities of drugs and cash. Another commenter was less interested in Herndon and instead used the post to ask police about another suspected drug house they claimed to have repeatedly reported.

There were also questions about why a Bible appeared among the items pictured by police, while some commenters called for extremely severe punishment over the fentanyl seizure. Whatever happens next in Herndon’s case, though, one part of the story has already reached a definitive conclusion: writing “no police… will come to me” is not an especially effective SWAT deterrent.

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