{"id":11367,"date":"2025-10-19T20:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T20:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/11367\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T20:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T20:30:10","slug":"two-arrested-in-cape-coral-drug-bust-over-1k-grams-of-mdma-seized-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/11367\/","title":{"rendered":"Two arrested in Cape Coral drug bust, over 1k grams of MDMA seized | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">The Cape Coral Police Department\u2019s narcotics unit arrested two men accused of drug trafficking several forms of narcotics in the area.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to police, Julian James Garton-Miulli, 27, and Sean Matthew Balke, 51, were arrested on Wednesday after detectives discovered he was distributing MDMA and THC products.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">MDMA, short for Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, is commonly known as ecstasy.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Detectives found over 28 grams of MDMA at his residence on SE 6th Place. A search also revealed four handguns, an AR pistol, a rifle, two shotguns, more than $5,600 in cash, and various narcotics, including meth and mushrooms.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">During a related investigation, a search warrant was executed at another location on Beach Parkway West. Detectives recovered large amounts of narcotics, firearms, money, and other drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Garton-Miulli was charged with trafficking in MDMA, possession of controlled substances, and other related offenses.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Balke faces charges of trafficking in cocaine, meth, and THC, as well as possession of drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Detectives recovered significant quantities of drugs, including 457.8 grams of cocaine, 1,028 grams of MDMA, and 17 pounds of marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"arrest - 1\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Credit: Cape Coral Police Department\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Both men were taken to the Lee County Jail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Karsen is a Digital Specialist and has been with WINK News\u00a0since May 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cape Coral Police Department\u2019s narcotics unit arrested two men accused of drug trafficking several forms of narcotics&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,10698,10699,10701,10700,10702],"class_list":{"0":"post-11367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news","11":"tag-entactogens","12":"tag-euphoriants","13":"tag-mdma","14":"tag-methylenedioxyphenethylamines","15":"tag-stimulants"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}