Florida Cops Find Bagful Of Drugs Labeled ‘Bagful Of Drugs’ During Traffic Stop

If you’re toting a sack full of drugs across the interstate, you might want to label it something other than what it actually is, or, at the very least, leave it unmarked. This was not the plan of two Florida men who were arrested during a traffic stop after cops found an aptly named “bagful of drugs” in their car.

USA Today reports that the two men were pulled over for speeding in Pensacola, when state troopers found the controlled substances. The particular “bagful of drugs” happened to contain 75 grams of methamphetamine, 1.36 kilograms of GHB (a sedative), one gram of cocaine, 15 MDMA tablets, drug paraphernalia and 3.6 grams of fentanyl.

Florida Highway Patrol recognized the irony of the situation but were reluctant to call it a laughing matter. "That is not something we see every day," said Lt. Robert Cannon of the FHP. "If the presence of fentanyl, GHB and methamphetamine wasn’t such a serious public health hazard – a blight – then it would be humorous."

The two 36-year-old men — Ian Christian Simmons, and his passenger, Joshua Michael Reinhardt — were both booked into the Santa Rosa County Jail without chance for bond. They were both charged with possession of drug equipment and two counts apiece of drug trafficking and possession charges. Police were alarmed by the amount of fentanyl that was seized and said that it was enough to kill an elephant. “Fentanyl is the reason that our troopers no longer unwrap drugs,” Cannon said referring to the drug’s incredible potency and toxicity.

Canon shared that there have been several incidents throughout the county in which officers were hospitalized because of the presence of fentanyl. He noted that when they find drugs, they take them straight to the lab without touching them because so many of them are laced with fentanyl.