Police: Miami Gardens convicted felon who fatally shot intruder was trafficking drugs

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — A 50-year-old convicted drug trafficker faced charges on Wednesday after detectives accused him of shooting a man in the head on Tuesday in Miami Gardens.

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Police officers arrested Anthony Gordon after detectives with a search warrant found $1.3 million in cash and about 42 kilograms of drugs at his home, according to the Miami Gardens Police Department.

“What began as a home invasion robbery investigation quickly revealed a major narcotics operation hidden in plain sight,” Miami-Dade County State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said in a statement.

Police officers also arrested Danette Young shortly before 12:4 p.m. on Tuesday at the house along Northwest 174 Street, near 37 Avenue, according to a police officer’s arrest report.

Miami-Dade corrections booked Gordon, a convicted felon, and Young, 58, on Wednesday morning at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, according to inmate records.

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Gordon, also known as “Peanut,” was last released from prison on Dec. 2, 2020, after seven convictions in Miami-Dade and one in Broward — all related to drug trafficking in 2013 and 2014, according to the Florida Department of Corrections.

Gordon faced 16 charges: Dealing in stolen property, cocaine trafficking, fentanyl trafficking, amphetamine trafficking, Oxycodone trafficking, illegal drugs trafficking while armed, 10 counts of possession of a firearm or ammunition by a convicted felon, and possession of drugs without a prescription.

Young faced eight charges: Cocaine trafficking, trafficking marijuana while armed, trafficking Oxycodone while armed, amphetamine trafficking, dealing in stolen property, fentanyl trafficking, illegal drugs trafficking while armed, and possession of drugs without a prescription.

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