A Summerfield man was arrested on several drug charges when his suspicous behavior at Wawa hinted at criminal activity.
An officer noticed a woman parked at the air pumps at Wawa, located at 11770 N U.S.8 301, around 9:10 p.m. Monday, according to an arrest report from the Wildwood Police Department. She consistently and suspiciously looked in the direction of the officer as 46-year-old Richard Brown Street started helping her with her apparent faulty vehicle. He too started acting strange, scanning the parking lot and looking at the officer.
Their behavior caught the officer’s attention, so he checked the vehicle’s tag using law enforcement databases. He learned it was unassigned, and the woman had numerous narcotic violations out of Sumter County in her criminal history, the report said.
The officer proceeded to watch the two for several hours, noting suspicious behavior such as pacing, scanning the parking lot to look for the officer’s vehicle, getting in and out of the vehicle, and the woman going into Wawa several times, all of which he knew to be consistent with criminal activity, the report said.
He then saw the woman and Street get into an orange 2005 Chevrolet Avalanche driven by another man, moving numerous bags with them. The vehicle failed to stop at the stop sign at the northwest exit of County Road 201, leading to a traffic stop with the nearest intersection of U.S. 301, the report said.
Of the five people in that vehicle, including a juvenile, only the suspects showed signs of deception and nervousness. They avoided eye contact, spoke very low with a stutter and gripped their bags very tightly. A K-9 was subsequently brought to the scene to sniff around the vehicle, and it positively alerted to the odor of narcotics, the report said.
A search of the vehicle followed, including a backpack held by Street. Inside were three cut straws with white residue, a scale, a broken glass pipe with residue, one piece of Brillo, two metal spoons with white residue, two hypodermic syringes, a pair of tweezers and a pair of nail clippers. There was also methamphetamine and marijuana, the report said.
Street later admitted these items belonged to him and no one else. He stated he used narcotics to cope with life, the report said.
He was arrested on charges of possession of methamphetamine, marijuana (less than 20 grams) and drug paraphernalia. He also had a warrant out of Lake County charging him with possession of methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia and three counts of petit theft (third or subsequent offense). He is currently being held without bond at the Sumter County Detention Center.
Street has a long criminal history, including a recent drug arrest at Lady Lake Crossing in Oct. 2025, another at an arcade in March 2022, and one more after leaving Tikki Hut in April 2021.
His other priors were for thefts of a bike at Walmart in Nov. 2024, of merchandise from Best Buy in July 2021, of merchandise from Walmart in July 2020, his mother’s vehicle from her home in Feb. 2020, and of two mini-bikes from Walmart in Nov. 2019.