Snapchat Drug Deal Home Invasion, More Drugs & DUI

Several drug-related stories this week including a heroin DUI.

A popular Sandalfoot watering hole appears, again, TWICE, in this report. Also Colonnade at Glen Cove, Boca Lago, and a few from East Boca.

Aaron Houghton (26, East Boca) was arrested for DUI, a felony because it’s his third in 10 years, possession of heroin, illegal possession of a concealed fixed-blade knife which was hidden between the driver’s seat and center console, and driving while suspended and revoked.

The incident started when a Mobil employee on Yamato in East Boca called police to report a driver sleeping in his car. Houghton admitted to snorting heroin.

Oddly police asked him to take a breath alcohol test but did not ask him for a blood draw or urine sample. He refused the breath test.

Despite a fairly extensive record, it appears he’s never been sentenced to state prison. He currently has a pending retail theft case from the Dick’s in Mission Bay, and had a DUI in 2019.

32-year-old Joseph Gootee of Majestic Woods in Sandalfoot Cove was arrested for cocaine possession. This yet another case from the O’Connor’s Pub parking lot in Sandalfoot.

A deputy on foot patrol saw Gootee get into a parked car and stay inside. He approached the car “to make consensual contact” and saw Gootee holding a bag with a white powder substance.

Gootee had a domestic battery case in 2018 and a driving under suspension in 2017.

Rebecca Wasserman (29, Colonnade at Glen Oaks) was arrested for illegal possession of prescription drugs plus grand theft of a firearm.

The encounter occurred in the parking lot of the BP gas station at Yamato and Congress after 4 am.

Nothing good happens after 2 am.

A Boca officer was patrolling and approached Wasserman, who was sitting in her car with the door open. He saw “several pills scattered throughout the floorboard in plain view.”

A search revealed a Glock 43X 9mm that was reported stolen, and over 50 pills containing a generic Prozac. Allegedly Wasserman has no prescription for the drug. She claimed she traded a dirt bike for the gun. The report does not indicate whether the gun was loaded.

Wasserman has had multiple drug arrests in her past.

In the career criminal category we have Matthew Kanov of the Glades of Boca Lago subdivision. The Long Island native previously did 5 1/2 years in state prison for armed robbery and we see 51 cases for him in the local courts.

O’Connor’s Pub called this one in after employees saw Kanov shooting heroin in the bathroom.

We do not recommend using illegal drugs, especially at O’Connor’s Pub.

When the deputy searched Kanov, he found a bag of cocaine. Not only is this still illegal, but it also violates the terms of Kanov’s probation from his armed robbery case.

Last in this report is Kevin Wynne (21) a Broward College student who lives in the Camino area of southeast Boca.

Wynne was pulled over for speeding on Camino Real. The officer described Wynne as having slow reaction time and slurred speech. After field sobriety exercises he arrested Wynne and took him downtown. Wynne admitted crushing his suboxone prescription and smoking it. He takes suboxone as treatment for his opiate addiction.

Wynne blew 0.000 on breath tests. He submitted a urine sample as well. He has a 2017 DUI case in his past and a 2019 burglary case as well.