Convicted felon arrested for gun possession and selling drugs near a daycare

BY JENNIFER CABRERA

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Roman Aundrel Frazier II, 28, was arrested yesterday and charged with two counts of possession of a firearm or ammunition by a convicted felon, possession of trafficking quantities of phenethylamines, possession of a synthetic narcotic with intent to sell, possession of cocaine with intent to sell within 1000 feet of a specified area, and resisting arrest without violence.

An Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputy reported that he observed a car leaving Holly Heights at about 7:15 p.m. last night; the car reportedly ran a stop sign and then came to a complete stop in the travel lane of SW 8th Avenue, an area that is “heavily populated with families, children, bicycles and other motor traffic at all hours of the day.”

The car turned into Hidden Oak Mobile Home Park, and a passenger got out of the car and entered the code to open the gate. Inside the neighborhood, the deputy stopped the car and asked the driver to exit the car. While gathering paperwork from the driver, deputies saw a man in the passenger seat and a woman in the rear seat and reportedly smelled a “faint odor of marijuana.”

The deputy wrote a warning to the driver, who denied consent to search the car. Deputies saw a “blunt” packaging cut in half and containing a white powder. The two passengers also got out of the car, and a deputy told them they were not free to leave. The deputy reported that Frazier kept reaching into his pockets and talking on his Bluetooth headphones. Frazier reportedly consented to a search of his person, which did not produce anything illegal.

Deputies found a backpack in the back seat, unzipped and open. Inside the backpack they reportedly found a gun; at that point, Frazier was told to put his hands behind his back, and he allegedly ran. He was tackled to the ground about ten feet away from the patrol vehicle.

A search of the backpack reportedly produced a Taurus GC2 handgun with 10 rounds of ammunition (the gun was not reported stolen), 80.1 grams of MDPV, a scale, 4 grams of cocaine, and a number of plastic baggies. Also inside the backpack was a Bluetooth headphone charger that matched the headphones worn by Frazier; the headphones reportedly did not pair to the phones of the two other occupants of the car.

During post-Miranda interviews, deputies were reportedly told that Frazier handed the backpack to the rear-seat passenger before the traffic stop and told her to put it under the seat. Frazier reportedly denied any knowledge of the backpack.

The traffic stop was within 1000 feet of the SWAG center, which provides daycare services for children.

Frazier has five felony convictions (two violent), with the most recent in 2018. He has served two state prison sentences and was released in 2020 after serving three years and six months on a charge of selling cocaine within 1000 feet of a specified location in Gilchrist County. Judge Walter Green set bail at $57,000.

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