VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – It’s just after 5 a.m. and Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood is not behind a desk - he’s on the front lines.

At a mobile home in Edgewater, deputies are preparing to serve a search warrant on a suspected drug dealer - a convicted felon they’ve been tracking for weeks. The SWAT team and Edgewater police are also onsite, responding to complaints from neighbors about constant traffic in and out of the home.

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After days of surveillance, they confirm the suspect is inside. It’s go time.

As we are riding to the location with the sheriff, he tells us how this will all go down.

“We’re going to get out, we’re going to follow. Ben is our captain of the SWAT team-we’re going to follow him,” he explains.

Chitwood parks about a block away. But he doesn’t just

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