A man has been banned from Walt Disney World after he was caught sneaking a wallet full of cocaine into Magic Kingdom Park.
Florida Man with Wallet of Cocaine at Magic Kingdom
Dustin Lee Wallace, 44, of St. Augustine, was arrested March 29 and charged with possession of cocaine. He pleaded not guilty earlier this month, according to Orange Circuit Court Records. Wallace’s attorney did not respond to a request for a comment.
Disney Security Officer Bryan Colon described the situation in the official arrest report. He witnessed Wallace and his son walk up to the security checkpoint near the Magic Kingdom bus loop. As per usual security policies at Magic Kingdom, Colon went to wand the pair with a metal detector and check their bags. Colon also asked Wallace to remove the wallet from his back pocket, to which Wallace complied.
“Bryan observed that his wallet was bulky, and he began to get nervous. Bryan explained that he must check the wallet, the defendant opened it, and he observed a bag of powdery white substances. Bryan contacted his manager for assistance,” the report said.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office used a field test on the white powder and found the “results were presumptive positive, indicating the presence of cocaine.”
Wallace later admitted to trying to bring the drugs inside the Magic Kingdom, claiming the cocaine was for stress relief, “Dustin advised he has been using cocaine for approximately one month because of stress from work.”
This latest incident is at least the second time in the past several months someone has been arrested for trying to bring drugs into the Magic Kingdom.
Previously, Aya Zabib of Lake Worth was arrested with a small brown vial of what she told authorities was cocaine left from the Electric Daisy Carnival, an electronic music festival in Orlando. Court records show the drug was later identified as ketamine. Zabib is now charged with possession of ketamine, which is a third-degree felony. She has pleaded not guilty, and the case is still pending.
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