LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. — The Lee County Sheriff's Office says a series of warrants in Lehigh Acres lead to the seizure of drugs, weapons and $100,000 in cash.
Deputies say on Friday, June 19, they pulled over Justin Sajewski for a traffic violation on Leeland Heights Boulevard.
According to a post on their Facebook page, deputies say they saw a gun placed between the driver's seat and the car's center console.
They also say they smelled marijuana.
Inside of the car, deputies found LSD, marijuana and over $25,000 in cash.
Sajewski was arrested.
Deputies say Sajewski also used a nearby storage unit. Inside of that space, they found more than $12,000 plus the following:
- 19 bottles containing 10,166 Alprazolam pills
- nearly three pounds of THC wax
- an additional 10.4 grams of LSD
- 45.38 grams of Ecstasy
- 13.74 ounces of “Nerds Rope” THC candy
- 9mm ammunition
LCSO says a warrant for houses located on 3rd Street Southwest and West 7th Street led to the arrests of 37-year-old Lawrence Cliffton Bankins and 27-year-old Noe Lara.
Inside of those locations, deputies say they found the following:
- 14 firearms, two of which had been reported stolen
- 345 THC cartridges
- 95 THC nerd candy packages
- 56 grams of Methamphetamines
- 0.8 grams of Crack cocaine
- 21.2 grams of MDMA
- 71.5 Alprazolam pills
- 171 pounds of marijuana
Detectives say they also seized an additional $75,720.00 of U.S. currency.
