Lee County sheriff’s deputies arrested three people on a slew of drug charges after a vehicle chase Thursday.
Sheriff Brian Estes said narcotics agents attempted on Thursday to stop a BMW driven by Randall Lewis Fore on Sheriff Watson Road. According to Estes, Fore didn’t stop and instead attempted to flee, at one point running off the road into a wooded area. As Fore got back onto the road, he is alleged to have nearly struck a deputy.
The chase ended when Fore rammed into a patrol vehicle.
Inside Fore’s vehicle, deputies allegedly found nearly an ounce of fentanyl, 2.5 ounces of marijuana, 13 strips of Buprenorphine, three Morphine pills, a Glock 21 pistol with magazines including a 40 round drum, and “other items of drug paraphernalia.”
Fore, 33, was charged with fleeing to elude arrest, trafficking fentanyl by possession and transport, possession of a firearm by a felon, possession of a schedule IV controlled substance, possession with intent to sell and deliver a schedule III controlled substance, maintaining a vehicle for controlled substances, two counts of assault on a government official, and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was also apparently wanted for unspecified outstanding warrants, Estes said.
Two passengers in Fore’s vehicle, 39-year-old Morgan Seymour and 31-year-old Thomas Brumley, were charged with multiple felony and misdemeanor drug charges.
Fore, Seymour and Brumley were each placed in the Lee County Jail without bond.
