Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Derrick Reng Washington, 66, of Alachua, was arrested yesterday after a deputy reportedly found distribution quantities of marijuana and fentanyl in his truck during a traffic stop.
At about 5:55 p.m. on November 5, an Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputy conducted a traffic stop in the Phoenix area on a pickup truck that failed to stop at a stop sign. Washington, the driver of the vehicle, reportedly refused to provide consent to search his vehicle, so a Narcotics Detector K-9 conducted an open-air sniff of the vehicle and alerted to contraband…