text: CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. — A 35-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman were arrested after a search warrant at a home in Port Charlotte, officials said.
  Deputies with the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office arrived at 3714 Brooklyn Ave and asked the people inside to leave. Two people complied, but two others — Jonathan King and Mariah Merchant — stayed inside.
  King and Merchant were found in separate bathrooms and were detained until the search warrant was completed, deputies said.
  More than $3,800 in cash and a baggie containing 7.8g of methamphetamine was found on King, deputies said. His hands also had trace amounts of fentanyl on them.
  Deputies went through a safe and found a total of 56 various pills and a digital scale. The pills were identified as Buprenorphine Hydrochloride (x13), Methadone Hydrochloride (x25), and Naproxen (18x).
  In other rooms, deputies found baggies containing a total of 24.6g of fentanyl, 7.5g of methamphetamine, three smoking pipes (testing positive for methamphetamine residue), a bottle of Methadone, and three unidentified pills.
  Deputies found probable cause to arrest Merchant for possession of drug paraphernalia. Her bond was set at $2,500.
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