MOUNT DORA, Florida—A Leesburg man released from prison less than three months ago is being held in the Lake County Jail on $25,000 bond after he tossed multiple bags of methamphetamine in a yard in front of Lake County Sheriff’s Office detectives, according to an arrest affidavit.
LCSO detectives requested a marked patrol unit pull over a tan Chevy Impala that was involved in an investigation in the area North Orange Street in Mount Dora around 2:30 p.m. Monday afternoon. When the marked deputy arrived in the area, the Impala was parked at a home and started moving a brief time later, the affidavit states.
Multiple patrol units responded to the area of East Jackson Avenue and North Simpson Street and found the car parked in the side yard of a home on North Simpson Street and Daniel Lee Woods, 40, and Jarvis Demond Walker, 40, walking away from home; detectives spotted both men tossing multiple packages as they walked behind the home on North Simpson Street. Woods and Walker were taken into custody and LCSO found several packages containing a substance that field tested positive methamphetamine, in addition to a baggie containing 20 grams of marijuana and a bag of cocaine that weighed 9 grams, according to the affidavit.
One package contained 14 grams of methamphetamine and 10 baggies contained 1 gram each of methamphetamine, for a total of 24 grams. The threshold for trafficking is 14 grams and carries a penalty of up to three years in prison and a $50,000 fine. Woods was arrested for trafficking in methamphetamine and possession of methamphetamine and Walker was arrested for possession of marijuana and possession of cocaine. Walker, of Eustis, was released from LCJ on $4,000 bond.
Woods was released from prison March 15 after serving a little more than a year, according to Florida Department of Corrections online records. Woods was sentenced to 3 years and 7 months in prison and given 345 days credit for time served in LCJ when he pleaded no contest in 2020 to selling crack cocaine to a confidential informant in 2019.
