Frazier released from jail on total bond of $35,150
A traffic stop resulted in a 31-year-old Sarasota man being charged with possessing “large amounts of methamphetamine, cocaine, and fentanyl,” the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office has reported.
Marcus Dontario Rashaan Frazier, of 2413 19th St., was arrested on Sept. 22, the Sheriff’s Office said, after officers observed that his vehicle “had dark window tint which appeared to be darker than the legal limit,” Frazier’s Probable Cause Affidavit says.
During that traffic stop, the news release noted, officers found the following inside the Kia sedan he was driving:
- 30.8 grams of suspected MDMA, also known as Ecstasy.
- 8.4 grams of fentanyl.
- 25.3 grams of cocaine.
- 11.9 grams of methamphetamine.
- 2.0 grams of marijuana.
- 8.4 grams of rock cocaine.
A subsequent investigation revealed that Frazier “was renting a hotel room along University Parkway,” the release continued. After a search warrant was executed there, the release said, “additional narcotics, drug paraphernalia indicative of narcotic manufacturing/sales, and a 9mm semiautomatic handgun were located within the room.
“It should be noted Frazier is a convicted felon who has not had his civil rightsrestored and therefore cannot possess a firearm,” the release pointed out.
Frazier was charged with one count of Possession of a Firearm by Convicted Felon; one count of Possession of Methamphetamine with intent to Sell, Manufacture or Deliver; and Driving While License Suspended, the release noted.
He was released from jail on $35,150 bond on Sept. 24, his jail booking record shows.
On Sept. 24, Assistant Public Defender Connor Rupp filed a plea of “Not Guilty” for Frazier with the 12th Judicial Circuit Court, The Sarasota News Leader learned. Frazier also demanded a jury trial, the document noted.
This is an ongoing investigation, with additional charges expected to be forthcoming, pending drug analysis results and fingerprinting, the Sheriff’s Office news release said.
Trying to put blame on a passenger in the vehicle
The Probable Cause Affidavit for Frazier’s arrest explains that an officer was “conducting surveillance” on the property located at 4636 Garcia Ave. in Sarasota, in collaboration with Special Investigations detectives of the Sheriff’s Office, when one of the detectives “observed a Kia sedan back into the driveway” at the home.
A person came out of the residence, approached the vehicle and returned to the residence as the vehicle was leaving, the affidavit says. The vehicle — “was in the driveway for less than a minute,” the affidavit points out, noting that that timing is “consistent with a narcotics transaction.”
The officer who narrated the affidavit explains that he followed the vehicle, which had stopped at the intersection of Garcia Avenue and Sunniland Street, and then passed it, observing that it “had dark window tint which appeared to be darker than the legal limit.”
As the officer turned his vehicle around to try to get behind the Kia, the affidavit continues, the driver “attempted to elude [him] by pulling into a driveway at 3925 Sunniland [St.].” However, the officer pulled behind the Kia in the driveway.
Frazier was the driver, the affidavit notes; a passenger, Aaliyah Turner, was in the front seat.
The officer asked Frazier to roll down the window, so the officer “could place [his] agency tint meter on the vehicle,” the affidavit continues. That meter revealed a reading that was in violation of state law, the affidavit adds.
When the officer asked Frazier for his license, Frazier responded that he did not have it, because his driving privileges had been suspended, the affidavit says.
Two deputies arrived on the scene as the officer “walked around to the passenger side of the vehicle” and asked Turner, the passenger, to exit the Kia, which she did with no hesitation, the affidavit notes.
Then one of the deputies, who had a K9 partner with him, had the dog conduct “an open-air sniff of the vehicle,” the affidavit adds.
The officer was able to see right away that the passenger “had multiple bags in her purse [within the Kia] that contained suspect marijuana and suspect MDMA pills in plain view,” the affidavit points out; she advised the officer that she does not have a medical marijuana card.
After the officer read Turner her Miranda rights, the affidavit continues, she told the officer that the narcotics “were all placed there by [Frazier] when he saw law enforcement …” She added that “he shoved the bags of narcotics in her purse “and threw a pill bottle out the passenger window, noting that it “contained additional narcotics,” the affidavit says.
Moreover, the affidavit points out, Turner advised the other deputy that while the first officer was pulling over the vehicle, Frazier “told her to shove a bag of narcotics down her pants. She proceeded to retrieve the bag of suspect crack cocaine [with 8.4 grams] from her groin area” and gave it to the deputy.
That same deputy was able to locate the pill bottle that she had mentioned, the affidavit continues. It had 8.4 grams of what was suspected to be fentanyl, the affidavit notes.
After he was read his Miranda rights, the affidavit says, Frazier “denied any knowledge of narcotics and advised that he was just a driver for [Turner].” He also claimed that he did not throw anything out the window, the affidavit adds.
Eventually, however, the affidavit says, Frazier “admitted that he had been in possession of the crack cocaine that [Turner] had shoved down her shorts …”
Turner then told the officers that Frazier had additional narcotics in his room at the Sleep Inn motel standing at 900 University Parkway, the affidavit notes. The officers found a key for a Sleep Inn room in Fraizer’s wallet, the affidavit adds.
After obtaining a search warrant, it continues, officers conducted a search of the motel room. Even before they did so, Frazier, who was being interviewed by a Special Investigations detective, reported that he had left methamphetamine and a scale in the microwave oven in the room, and he had a firearm in the room that he had received in a crack cocaine trade, the affidavit points out. He “admitted that his gun rights had not been restored and [he] knew he was a felon”; he also mentioned that he had spent time in prison on federal charges.
He admitted, too, that he had sold narcotics out of the motel room, the affidavit says.
When the motel room was searched, the items Frazier had discussed were found in it, the affidavit adds.
A number of prior charges
A News Leader search of the records maintained by Sarasota County Clerk of the Circuit Court and County Comptroller Karen Rushing and her staff found that the first charge against Frazier came in October 2010, when he was cited for riding a bicycle without the proper type of light.
Then, almost exactly two years later — in October 2012 — he was cited for driving with a suspended license.
Next, in March 2013, he was charged with aggravated assault and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The Office of the State Attorney of the 12th Judicial District ended up declining to prosecute him on either count, court records show.
In late May 2013, Frazier was arrested and charged with possession of rock cocaine. He eventually was sentenced to one year and one day in jail, court records note in that case.
Among subsequent charges against him, court records show, have been possession of not more than 20 grams of marijuana, selling rock cocaine within 1,000 feet of public housing, battery, aggravated battery on a victim who was pregnant, two more counts of driving with too much tint on his vehicle’s windows (2016 and 2017), and two additional charges of driving while his license was suspended (2017 and 2025).
Further, the News Leader learned from a review of court records that Turner, the passenger in Frazier’s Kia, has faced petit theft charges regarding property valued from $100 to under $300; possessing a controlled substance without a prescription (four oxycodone pills) and giving a false ID to a law enforcement officer (combined counts in May 2025); and unknowingly operating a vehicle while her driver’s license was suspended. The last charge came in August 2025, after she was stopped at the intersection of Myrtle Avenue and Central Avenue in Sarasota, the citation says.