HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – A man cops identified as a Zoe Mafia Family gang member had been involved with cocaine for about a decade in Broward County. A detective recently reported he had added fentanyl to his dealings.
According to state records, detectives arrested Tedrick Lewis for cocaine-related charges when he was 18, 19, and 20 years old. By 22, he had eight felony convictions, including one over a weapon.
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Records show The Florida Department of Corrections released Lewis from state prison just a little over a month after he marked his 24th birthday as a minimum custody inmate.
On Friday, Lewis, 26, was at the main jail in Fort Lauderdale after police officers received a tip that he was a drug dealer known as “Gucci” who operated out of Hollywood, records show.
Broward County Circuit Judge Hunter Davis signed an arrest warrant on Tuesday prompting Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies to hold Lewis without bond since Wednesday.
A Hollywood undercover detective reported paying cash when buying cocaine and fentanyl from Lewis during meetings in April and May near his home in the Royal Ponciana area.
The detective reported Lewis sold .2 grams of fentanyl in a “small tinfoil wrapped package” on April 23; .8 grams of cocaine in a “baggy” on April 26; .8 grams of cocaine on May 1, and a gram of cocaine on May 8.
Detectives later reported finding about 68.5 grams of cocaine, 3.4 grams of fentanyl, and a scale and baggies in Lewis’s home near Johnson Street and North Federal Highway.
Since Lewis allegedly used his cell phone to set up the drug deals, he was facing a charge of unlawful use of a two-way communications device, a third-degree felony.
Since Lewis was allegedly hiding in a neighbor’s apartment before police officers arrested him, he is facing charges of false imprisonment, burglary of an occupied dwelling, and resisting arrest.
Lewis is also facing charges of trafficking 28 grams or more, but less than 200 grams, of cocaine; possession with intent to sell, manufacture, or deliver fentanyl; possession of MDMA; possession of firearms or ammunition by a convicted felon; selling fentanyl; and selling cocaine.
A judge set Lewis’s bond at $185,500, and he was waiting for a hearing to show that his bond would not come from the profits of his alleged crimes.