FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A 16-time convicted felon was arrested after a narcotics-related search warrant in Fort Pierce. <\/p>\n
A narcotics-related search warrant executed by the St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office Special Investigations Division (SID), with support from the SWAT Team, led to the arrest of a 49-year-old Fort Pierce man on November 7.<\/p>\n
The operation took place near 2000 Oleander Boulevard, where detectives recovered:<\/p>\n
Around 20 grams of cocaineAround 7.5 grams of marijuanaDrug paraphernalia including a scale and packaging materialsA .380 caliber handgun and an additional magazine<\/p>\n
See also: Bizarre request for meth delivery leads to taser takedown in Indian River County<\/a><\/p>\n The suspect, Antonio Tyrone McArthur, a 16-time convicted felon, was taken into custody and faces:<\/p>\n Possession of cocainePossession with intent to sell or deliver cocainePossession of 20 grams or less of cannabisPossession of a firearm by a convicted felon<\/p>\n McArthur is currently being held at the St. Lucie County Jail.<\/p>\n “This operation is part of the Sheriff\u2019s Office\u2019s continued efforts to target illegal narcotics activity and enhance public safety throughout St. Lucie County,” the Sheriff\u2019s Office stated.<\/p>\n Find more ways to stay up to date with your latest local news. Sign up for our newsletter<\/a> to get the day’s top headlines delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our YouTube channel<\/a> for the biggest stories and can’t miss video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A 16-time convicted felon was arrested after a narcotics-related search warrant in Fort…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-38750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38750","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=38750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}