High-speed chase in Broward nets 3 suspects, 1 kilo of cocaine, 3 guns

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – There was once a high-speed chase on Wednesday in Broward County that was once section of a multi-agency regulation enforcement group that stuck a trio with a legal historical past — and cocaine and guns, information display.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the Florida Highway Patrol, the Broward Sheriff’s Office, and the Plantation Police Department labored in combination to catch 3 suspects

A BSO helicopter flew over a black 2019 Chevy Silverado with a tag from South Carolina that Julian Montes was once riding “recklessly, at a high rate of speed” southbound at the Turnpike, in line with an incident file FHP launched on Thursday.

Montes, 30, was once “passing traffic on the shoulder” and after a trooper struck him two times he “was able to maintain control” of the Chevy, however the trooper were given a flat tire, in line with FHP.

Deputies recorded aerial video appearing Montes’s entrance passenger, Tramain Jovonne Reed, throwing out guns and a yellow and black bag out the window, in line with FHP.

Troopers controlled to disable the Chevy after a 3rd maneuver inflicting Montes to lose keep an eye on and prevent, after which rushed to arrest him, Reed, 33, and Vicent Fernandes Barbosa, who was once in the again.

A seek group discovered a few kilo of cocaine, a black Glock 29 with 10 rounds, a black and silver Glock 20, and a black Ruger LCP .380 with 4 rounds, in line with FHP.

During wondering, Fernandes Barbosa, 36, advised detectives that he was once on his option to promote the kilo of cocaine for $20,000 to a purchaser who was once ready when there was once a chase, and he admitted to tossing the black Ruger LCP .380 out the window, information display.

BSO deputies booked the trio on the primary prison on Wednesday in Fort Lauderdale they usually have been going through fees of armed cocaine trafficking. Their bond was once denied on Thursday.

Fernandes Barbosa, of Deerfield Beach, was once on criminal probation for ownership of methamphetamine and ownership of marijuana. He was once additionally going through two probation violations.

Reed, of Riviera Beach, is an 8-time convicted felon, whose closing conviction was once on Nov. 30, 2016, for housebreaking of an unoccupied living in Martin County. He was once additionally going through fees of ownership of a weapon via a convicted felon, and ownership of ammunition via a convicted felon.

Montes, of Wellington, is a four-time convicted felon. He was once born in South Carolina and was once closing convicted on Jan. 19, 2017, of willful fleeing and eluding in Palm Beach County. He was once additionally going through fees of resisting arrest with violence, battery on a regulation enforcement officer, and irritated fleeing with injury.

Detectives have been asking any person with information concerning the case to name Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477 or Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.

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