Florida woman already in jail for drug trafficking faces new charges after selling fentanyl to undercover cop

(Ana Luisa Gonzalez booking photo, Image credit: CCSO)

On December 13, Florida’s Collier County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) announced that a suspected drug dealer who was already behind bars on narcotics trafficking charges faces a new charge – after she sold an undercover CCSO detective enough fentanyl to kill over 3,000 people.

“We are staunchly committed to removing fentanyl dealers and their deadly poison from our community,” Sheriff Kevin Rambosk said. “These arrests prevent overdoses, and our efforts will continue so we can prevent more.”

Rambosk recently introduced a communitywide fentanyl awareness and prevention campaign in an effort to help quell the fentanyl epidemic. The Laced & Lethal Campaign is the most comprehensive safety initiative in the history of Collier County, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Ana Luisa Gonzalez, 54, is the latest person arrested in the CCSO fentanyl crackdown. Gonzalez is a convicted felon with a lengthy arrest history in Collier County going back to 2003.

Gonzalez sold fentanyl to an undercover detective on two occasions during March 2022, selling a trafficking amount of fentanyl during one of the exchanges. The fentanyl weighed 6.8 grams and was enough to potentially kill 3,400 people.

On December 12, CCSO Vice and Narcotics Bureau (VNB ) detectives arrested Gonzalez at the Collier County jail and charged her with trafficking in fentanyl 4 grams or more. Gonzalez has been in CCSO custody since her April 22 arrest on cocaine and methamphetamine trafficking charges.

VNB detectives found 62 grams of cocaine and nearly 150 grams of meth, as well as other illicit drugs in her bedroom during a search warrant.

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(Source: CCSO)

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