14 arrested on drug charges in Operation Ice Break

VENICE — Three South County residents are among 14 people whose arrests were announced by the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday as the result of a multi-jurisdictional narcotics investigation from 2024 to 2025.

Operation Ice Break targeted “large-scale trafficking networks of fentanyl and methamphetamine, spanned multiple counties, culminating in the dismantling of significant drug distribution networks and the removal of high-level traffickers from the community,” a news release states.

Forty felony charges have been filed as a result of the operation, it states. Two people have warrants for their arrest but remain at large…

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