A 42-year-old Brooklyn man is facing a stack of felony charges after New York State Police say he led troopers on a high-speed chase through Broome County, tossed suspected narcotics out of his car window, and then intentionally rammed a state police vehicle before he was finally taken into custody near the Town of Windsor.
Ferris Travon Brown was pulled over after troopers with Troop C’s Community Stabilization Unit and Violent Gang and Narcotics Enforcement Team spotted a 2026 Chevrolet Trail Blazer traveling westbound at a high rate of speed on State Highway 17/Interstate 86 in the Town of Sanford, according to Newport Dispatch. The observation was made at 5:23 p.m. on Tuesday, and police initiated a traffic stop, but Brown fled once he had initially been stopped, failing to comply as troopers pursued him.
During the pursuit, Brown allegedly threw suspected narcotics out of his vehicle window while traveling recklessly at a high rate of speed through traffic. The chase concluded in the Town of Windsor, where Brown intentionally struck a New York State Police vehicle before he was taken into custody without further incident, the outlet’s report states.
What Troopers Say They Found
Troopers recovered approximately 7.2 ounces of suspected fentanyl, along with roughly 3 ounces of mannite and about 1.8 ounces of suspected powder novocain, according to the same account. Mannite, or mannitol, is a sweet sugar alcohol historically sold as a mild laxative that traffickers widely use as a bulking agent to stretch bulk heroin and fentanyl into saleable street quantities, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Novocain, chemically known as procaine, is a synthetic anesthetic often mixed into powder narcotics because its numbing effect can mimic high purity for street-level buyers, per California Detox…