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Broward deputies arrest fugitive in drug trafficking case

local10.com 2024/10/5

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested a 33-year-old fugitive who is a convicted felon with a pending drug trafficking case.

According to Broward Sheriff’s Office inmate records, Moses “Moe” Francois was at the main jail on Saturday in Fort Lauderdale after deputies from West Park arrested him and corrections deputies booked him on Friday without bond.

Court records show Francois, who was born in Miami, was on pre-trial release since June 15, 2023, and a judge ordered his arrest on June 26 after he allegedly damaged his GPS ankle monitor and vanished.

Deputies arrested Francois on a warrant pending trial on seven charges: Trafficking in fentanyl, trafficking heroin, possession of cocaine with intent to sell, two counts of delivery of fentanyl, unlawful use of a two-way communications device, and resisting an officer without violence.

According to the Florida Department of Corrections, Francois was convicted in 2014 on charges related to the trafficking of cocaine, heroin, and marijuana in Broward County and sentenced to two years in prison. Corrections released him on Feb. 20, 2015.

Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other narcotrafficking cases to call Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.

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