The Bay County Sheriff’s Office announced today the culmination of a narcotics investigation with the arrest of two suspects and the seizure of more than 2 pounds of methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana. MDMA, and alprazolam.
On June 13th, 2023, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigations Division conducted the investigation which led to a traffic stop on Frankford Avenue in Panama City.
Contact was made with the driver, Brittany Johnson, age 37, of Panama City. Investigators deployed BCSO certified narcotics detection K9 Fila.
She did an open-air sniff on the vehicle and rendered a positive alert to the presence of narcotics within the vehicle.
This resulted in a probable cause search of the vehicle during which investigators discovered a trafficking amount of methamphetamine (over 130 grams). Also discovered on Johnson’s person was more methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana.
As a result of the traffic stop, Special Investigations investigators obtained a search warrant of Johnson’s residence at 5802 Highway 22 in Callaway.
While waiting for the search warrant to be granted, investigators surveilled the residence and observed a man arrive at the home.
He was later identified as Walter Natiel Junior, age 44, of Panama City. Natiel was observed entering and exiting the residence with a bag.
It was believed that the bag contained evidence pertaining to the investigation, so contact was made with Natiel. The bag was found to contain over 2.2lbs of methamphetamine.
A short time later, the residential search warrant was executed by investigators. Located inside Johnson’s residence were more narcotics and a firearm. A trafficking amount of MDMA and a large amount of Alprazolam pills prepackaged for distribution were seized.
Investigators arrested Brittany Johnson for the offense of Trafficking in Methamphetamine (more than 200 grams), Trafficking in MDMA (more than 10 grams), Possession of Alprazolam with Intent to Distribute, Possession of Cocaine, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.
Natiel was also arrested for Tampering with Evidence. Both were later booked into the Bay County Jail.
