Naples man arrested in $1.6M cocaine bust

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A suitcase containing cocaine was found in a pickup truck by Collier County sheriff’s deputies
Tuesday night.
Naples man arrested
in $1.6M cocaine bust
What a sheriff’s official described as
one of the largest Collier County drug
busts in a half-dozen years resulted in a
Naples man charged with drug trafficking after deputies found $1.6 million
worth of cocaine hidden in his pickup
truck.
Joseph Emile Daniels, 58, was arrested Tuesday night after deputies served a
search warrant on a 2011 Chevrolet GMC
pickup at a Mannix Road address at
around 8:30 p.m.
The truck, registered to Daniels, contained a black suitcase in the bed. Inside
the case deputies found 45.9 kilograms
of cocaine with a street value of $1.6 million.
A report from the Collier County
sheriff’s Office said Daniels was present
at the scene and had the truck keys on
him.
An arraignment for Daniels is scheduled March 7.
In a press conference later Tuesday,
Capt. Tom Storrar of the Collier County
Sheriff’s Office described how deputies
found the drugs.
Storrar said deputies noticed illegally
dark tint on Daniels’ white pickup truck
and went to pull it over. He added that
the stop was random and not part of an
official drug operation pinpointing Daniels.
Daniels then pulled into the Mannix
Road site and was outside the truck
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when deputies approached.
Storrar said that a narcotic-sniffing
dog alerted on an area in the bed of the
pickup obscured by a tonneau cover.
Deputies then found the case and the
drugs there.
The Collier captain also said that it
was too early in the investigation to tell
if Daniels has been actively selling
drugs. Responding to whether Daniels
had planned to take the drugs to the east
coast of Florida, Storrar said investigators are following leads on that.
Storrar also said that a bust of this
size, not seen in Collier County in six or
seven years, would likely cause a ripple
effect.
“This is a large bust, no question
about it,” Storrar said.
He said that when that much cocaine
is taken off the street, then price generally goes up and quality goes down.
“We will monitor that,” Storrar said.
Daniels also had a previous arrest, in
1985, for importation of 28,000 pounds of
marijuana. Storrar said he was familiar
with that arrest and said it was part of a
large scale operation at the time.
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