A crazed fugitive allegedly blew fentanyl in a Florida cop’s face during a frenzied bust and wildly insisted the lethal opioid was sugar, according to police body camera footage.
Jesse James McAuliffe, wanted on a probation violation warrant, was pulled from his car outside an Ocala grocery store on April 30, then cuffed by two deputies who found a small tied bag of fentanyl stashed in his pocket, shocking video released Wednesday by the Marion County Sheriff’s Office showed.
“It’s sugar, test it,” the seemingly dazed out suspect told a gloved officer.
The deputy responded, “Sugar? You carry sugar in a baggie like that?” before McAuliffe shot back, claiming he uses it when his “sugar gets low and I need to eat it.”
The officer continued searching McAuliffe’s pockets, finding a black bottle cap mixed in with crumpled napkins allegedly filled with melted fentanyl, before the perp suddenly huffed it directly at the cop’s face, the bodycam footage showed.
“I was just trying to blow that off your hand so you didn’t get it in your mouth,” the frantic suspect told the deputy, who immediately snapped at him for the brazen stunt.
“Look, it’s blowing right around. You might get sick from it. Don’t touch it.”
Marion County officials accused the strung-out suspect of attempting to destroy evidence.
The video later showed authorities removing numerous pre-filled and used syringes from McAuliffe’s trash-filled car, all of which tested positive for the dangerous street drug, cops said.
“You have a lot of sugar, man,” one deputy quipped while rifling through the druggie’s stash.
Officers said the exposed cop is “okay” in a Facebook post, warning that even small amounts of fentanyl can be “life-threatening.”
McAuliffe was hit with possession of fentanyl, tampering with evidence, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
He is being held without bond at the Marion County Jail.
