FORT PIERCE \u2013 A 50-year-old Fort Pierce man was arrested on July 21 after investigators discovered illegal drugs and a firearm at his home following a fire, according to a St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office Facebook posting.<\/p>\n
St. Lucie County Fire-District and St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office responded to a report of smoke and flames coming from a home in the 3400 block of Avenue I, Fort Pierce.<\/p>\n
After extinguishing the fire, preventing the home from becoming a total loss, firefighters did a walk-through and discovered a large quantity of multi-colored pills and notified the sheriff\u2019s office., according to the Facebook posting.<\/p>\n
Detectives with the Special Investigations Division responded and found cocaine, MDMA, fentanyl, marijuana and a gun in the house, according to the Facebook posting.<\/p>\n
Detectives executed a search warrant for the residence and seized:<\/p>\n
\u2022 270 grams of MDMA;<\/p>\n
\u2022 15 grams of powder cocaine;<\/p>\n
\u2022 2 grams of fentanyl;<\/p>\n
\u2022 711 grams of marijuana;<\/p>\n
\u2022 One Smith and Wesson .38 revolver.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Assorted narcotics paraphernalia used for packaging narcotics for sale\/distribution.<\/p>\n
Mario Antwon Bryant, 50, was arrested and charged with possession of fentanyl; possession of marijuana with intent to sell or deliver; trafficking in MDMA (amphetamine); possession of a firearm by a state convicted felon; and possession of cocaine.<\/p>\n
He was taken to the St. Lucie County Jail where he remained as of July 24 on a $355,000 bond, according to the jail web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE \u2013 A 50-year-old Fort Pierce man was arrested on July 21 after investigators discovered illegal drugs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,563],"class_list":["post-356528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-st_lucie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356528","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=356528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}