{"id":210191,"date":"2026-03-29T02:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T02:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/210191\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T02:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T02:19:11","slug":"florida-deputies-bust-daytona-beach-drug-operation-arrest-3-suspects-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/210191\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida deputies bust Daytona Beach drug operation; arrest 3 suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A tip about a Daytona Beach drug house sparked a Friday search warrant where deputies seized nearly two pounds of cocaine, illegal firearms, and $10,000.<\/p>\n

Deputies with the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office<\/a> say they responded to a home at 939 Madison Avenue around 8:45 a.m. where a drug deal was allegedly underway.<\/p>\n

Authorities say the customer, 53-year-old Charlie Damon, “threw” a bag of cocaine at the suspected dealer, 47-year-old Bobby Johnson, in an attempt to “return” his purchase.<\/p>\n

See also: Early morning shooting in Indian River County leaves one man dead<\/a><\/p>\n

Another suspect, 27-year-old Kelson Ammanuel Kelson, ran out of the back of the home and was intercepted a few houses away, according to VSO.<\/p>\n

Detectives say they later recovered 831 grams of cocaine and weapons from the house and a storage unit, including one stolen firearm and another with the serial number removed.<\/p>\n

Johnson and Damon were both booked into the Volusia County Jail<\/a> for counts of trafficking in cocaine 28-200 grams, according to court records.<\/p>\n

Kelson, however, was booked on more serious counts, including:<\/p>\n

Trafficking in cocaine (28\u2013200 grams)Trafficking in hydrocodone (28\u201350 grams)Using or renting a structure or vehicle with knowledge it\u2019s used for selling drugsPossession of cannabis over 20 gramsTrafficking in heroin (4 grams to less than 30 kilograms)Obstruction of an officer without violenceManufacture of cocainePossession of drug paraphernaliaTwo counts of possession of a controlled substance without a prescription<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A tip about a Daytona Beach drug house sparked a Friday search warrant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-210191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210191","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=210191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}