A pair of Leesburg men were arrested when an officer found several needles and some narcotics in their vehicle.
An officer patrolling near PepperTree Apartments, located at 3738 Pepper Tree Lane, saw a dark blue Jeep Grand Cherokee in the area around 2:40 a.m. Sunday, according to an arrest report from the Wildwood Police Department. The occupants, later identified as 61-year-old Gregory Dean Felix and 50-year-old Christopher Adam Swarthout, saw his patrol vehicle and turned to avoid him.
Seeing this, the officer drove around until he spotted the vehicle again traveling east on Pepper Tree Lane. He pulled out to follow the vehicle only for it to immediately turn into PepperTree Apartments to evade him. Due to this suspicious behavior, he parked at Sunstop, located at 9741 Pepper Tree Ln., to conduct surveillance, the report said.
It was a few minutes later at 3 a.m. when he saw the vehicle stop at the red light at the intersection of Pepper Tree Lane and U.S. Hwy. 301. He got behind it as it traveled at 33 mph in a 55-mph zone, another attempt at avoiding detection. He subsequently stopped the vehicle near County Road 110, the report said…