Sarasota Man Charged With Drug Trafficking Near Daycare: Sheriff

SARASOTA COUNTY, FL — A Sarasota man faces various felony drug charges, including drug trafficking near a daycare facility, after two undercover drug buys, the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

Detectives first contacted 46-year-old Britt Rogers March 4 at his home located in the 2000 block of 25th Street, where he sold undercover detectives suspected heroin.

Four days later, on March 8, Rogers again sold detectives suspected heroin. Upon testing, though, the substance was determined to be a combination of both heroin and fentanyl, the sheriff’s office said.

Both transactions were made at Rogers’ home, which is located less than 500 feet from a daycare facility, the sheriff’s office said.

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When detectives executed a search warrant on Rogers’ home Thursday, they recovered a trafficking amount of fentanyl, methamphetamine, and dilaudids, as well as a firearm.

Despite his more than three dozen local prior arrests, Rogers is not a convicted felon and, as such, can have a firearm, the sheriff’s office said.

Detectives also located several new and used Narcan nasal sprays, which contain prescription medication that reverses the effects of an overdose. In January, deputies responded on two separate occasions to Rogers’ home, which is a known drug house, for overdoses. One of the two overdoses was fatal, the sheriff’s office said.

Rogers was booked into the county jail Thursday on charges of trafficking in fentanyl, possession of methamphetamine, possession of a controlled substance, two counts of sale of fentanyl within 1,000 feet of a childcare facility, a single count of sale of heroin within 1,000 feet of a childcare facility and unlawful use of a two-way communication device.