“On December 31 ... a local woman reached out through text messaging to someone she believed was a drug dealer. The woman was looking for fentanyl to purchase before leaving town,” the Bay County Sheriff’s Office said in a Jan. 6 news release. “She had accidentally reached the phone of a narcotics investigator at the Bay County Sheriff’s Office.”

A tech-challenged Florida woman accidentally texted a cop instead of her drug dealer to buy fentanyl — unwittingly narcing herself out, according to police who arrested her.

A woman faces charges after authorities said she accidentally texted a sheriff's investigator whose number she had saved from a previous interaction under his initials that were similar to her dealer.

Four South Floridians receive prison sentences for distributing drugs, including fentanyl, linked to fatal overdoses.

There is a quote that says, “The easy way to learn is from others mistakes, the hard way to learn is from your own mistakes, and the tragic way is not learning from either.”

Ramero M. Randolph, 36, sold fentanyl to a man who thought he was buying cocaine, resulting in the deaths of the buyer and a woman, a report states.

A Florida woman was arrested after accidentally texting a narcotics investigator while trying to buy drugs, authorities said.

A Florida woman was trying to buy fentanyl when she accidentally texted a narcotics detective, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office reports. Darwin Brandis Getty Images/iStockphoto A holiday drug ...

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Former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi will be facing confirmation hearings Wednesday for her nomination as Donald Trump's AG.

Octavia Wells, a Bay County, Florida resident, has had run-ins with the law before. Her record reflected previous drug charges and several moving violations, causing her license to be suspended by the state.