It’s “rock and roll”: Gainesville musician arrested for cocaine possession with intent to sell

Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Stephen Fletcher Wixted, 36, was arrested last night and charged with possession of cocaine with intent to sell near a park; he said he was in a band playing at FEST and cocaine is part of “rock and roll.”

At about 9:40 p.m. on October 23, a Gainesville Police Department officer conducted a traffic stop on a car for failing to stop at a stop sign and then accelerating “in an attempt to beat oncoming traffic” in the 300 block of North Main Street…

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