VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – A former Daytona Beach police officer who was arrested last week and released by a judge is back behind bars after being approached with new warrants, according to Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood.
Amber Williamson, 40, was arrested on Friday after authorities found “trafficking amounts of fentanyl” among other drugs and paraphernalia in the apartment she allegedly shared with Marcus Plowden, who was also booked on drugs charges, Chitwood said that day.
According to a new statement from Chitwood, not only was Williamson released on recognizance that Saturday, but she went on to be arrested again the following Wednesday on drugs warrants out of Port Orange.
The warrants concern two more counts of trafficking in meth and an additional count of trafficking in fentanyl, the sheriff said, adding Williamson was being held on no bond this time.
“After we arrested her last week for trafficking in fentanyl and methamphetamine, Judge Randell H. Rowe released her on her own recognizance the next day,” Chitwood said. “(...) Given that detectives recovered 53 grams of fentanyl during her first arrest (enough for thousands of potentially fatal doses), I must join the rest of the community in asking: WTF? If Judge Rowe feels that certain drug dealers should be released on their own recognizance and sent right back into our community the next day, it makes you wonder why our deputies and police are busting their asses to lock them up in the first place.”