{"id":434914,"date":"2026-10-22T15:10:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T15:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/434914\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T15:10:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T15:10:33","slug":"police-fort-myers-man-faces-trafficking-charges-after-drugs-found-in-car-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/434914\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Fort Myers man faces trafficking charges after drugs found in car | Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014 A routine traffic stop on Pauldo Street turned into a drug bust when Fort Myers police pulled over a driver on Tuesday, Oct. 20.<\/p>\n<p>Officers stopped James Huffman, who they discovered had been driving on a license revoked since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>A search of Huffman&#8217;s vehicle turned up suspected marijuana, 112 suspected MDMA pills, baggies with suspected controlled substances and a digital scale with residue that tested positive for fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p>Huffman now faces several charges, including drug trafficking, possession of controlled substances with intent to sell, driving on a revoked license and resisting an officer.<\/p>\n<p>The Fort Myers Police Department said the arrest reflects its ongoing commitment to proactive patrols and getting dangerous drugs off the streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014 A routine traffic stop on Pauldo Street turned into a drug bust when Fort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,265,1069,28,897,3737,16399],"class_list":["post-434914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-crime","tag-fentanyl","tag-florida","tag-fort-myers","tag-fort-myers-police","tag-fort-myers-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434914","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=434914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}