{"id":271676,"date":"2026-05-15T02:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/271676\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T02:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:02:09","slug":"crazed-fugitive-blows-fentanyl-in-florida-cops-face-and-claims-its-sugar-wild-bodycam-footage-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/271676\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazed fugitive blows fentanyl in Florida cop&#8217;s face and claims &#8216;it&#8217;s sugar,&#8217; wild bodycam footage shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A crazed fugitive allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/tag\/fentanyl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">blew fentanyl<\/a> in a Florida cop\u2019s face during a frenzied bust and wildly insisted the lethal opioid was sugar, according to police body camera footage.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse James McAuliffe, wanted on a probation violation warrant, was pulled from his car outside an Ocala grocery store on April 30, then cuffed by two deputies who found a small tied bag of fentanyl stashed in his pocket, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1724351268742269\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">shocking video released Wednesday by the Marion County Sheriff\u2019s Office showed.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s sugar, test it,\u201d the seemingly dazed out suspect told a gloved officer.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse James McAuliffe, wanted on a probation violation warrant, was pulled from his car outside an Ocala grocery store on April 30. facebook\/mcsoflorida<\/p>\n<p>The deputy responded, \u201cSugar? You carry sugar in a baggie like that?\u201d before McAuliffe shot back, claiming he uses it when his \u201csugar gets low and I need to eat it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The officer continued searching McAuliffe\u2019s pockets, finding a black bottle cap mixed in with crumpled napkins allegedly filled with melted fentanyl, before the perp suddenly huffed it directly at the cop\u2019s face, the bodycam footage showed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just trying to blow that off your hand so you didn\u2019t get it in your mouth,\u201d the frantic suspect told the deputy, who immediately snapped at him for the brazen stunt.<\/p>\n<p>He then cuffed by two deputies who found a small tied bag of fentanyl stashed in his pocket. facebook\/mcsoflorida<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, it\u2019s blowing right around. You might get sick from it. Don\u2019t touch it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marion County officials accused the strung-out suspect of attempting to destroy evidence.<\/p>\n<p>The officer then found a black bottle cap mixed in with crumpled napkins allegedly filled with melted fentanyl. facebook\/mcsoflorida<\/p>\n<p>The perp suddenly huffed it directly at the cop\u2019s face, claiming he was trying to help stop the officer from get sick. facebook\/mcsoflorida<\/p>\n<p>The video later showed authorities removing numerous pre-filled and used syringes from McAuliffe\u2019s trash-filled car, all of which tested positive for the dangerous street drug, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have a lot of sugar, man,\u201d one deputy quipped while rifling through the druggie\u2019s stash.<\/p>\n<p>Officers said the exposed cop is \u201cokay\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/v\/1H1tyuwFpK\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">in a Facebook post<\/a>, warning that even small amounts of fentanyl can be \u201clife-threatening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He is being held without bond at the Marion County Jail. facebook\/mcsoflorida<\/p>\n<p>McAuliffe was hit with possession of fentanyl, tampering with evidence, and possession of drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n<p>He is being held without bond at the Marion County Jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crazed fugitive allegedly blew fentanyl in a Florida cop\u2019s face during a frenzied bust and wildly insisted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4864,5558,1069,28,30,29,91937,27899,4278],"class_list":["post-271676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-arrests","tag-drugs","tag-fentanyl","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-fugitives","tag-police-body-cameras","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271676","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=271676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}