Five arrested in fentanyl drug ring bust in Miramar and Pembroke Pines, feds say
Three Miramar men and a father-son duo from Pembroke Pines are behind bars following a federal sting operation that ended a two-year fentanyl probe, authorities said.
Brothers Anand and Sunil Someria, 23 and 25 years old respectively, and their distributor, 24-year-old Richarles Lake, were booked in Broward Main Jail on Wednesday, March 18, on drug conspiracy charges, jail records show.
Charles and Jonathan Randall — the 58-year-old father and 20-year-old son from Pembroke Pines — were booked in the Main Jail the same day on similar charges.
The arrests are the result of ATF and FBI agents spotted Wednesday while “conducting court-ordered law enforcement activity” at the Avant complex, FBI spokesperson Jim Marshall told the Pembroke Pines News.
Broward sheriff’s deputies and investigators with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were first tipped off to the Somerias — who are accused of heading the drug business — in March 2024, when an informant told authorities the brothers posessed and sold thousands of fentanyl pills from their Miramar home, according to the Miramar trio’s criminal complaint.
Lake — who’d been hired by the brothers a year before the bust — lived at and operated the Somerias’ second property at a Miramar apartment, dubbed their “trap house,” investigators said.
Task force officers have “conducted hundreds of hours of surveillance” since October 2025 and observed over 100 hand-to-hand drug transactions at the apartment, which is across the street from the City of Pembroke Pines Charter School and a stone’s throw from New Renaissance Middle School, reads the report.
In December 2025, investigators said they sent an undercover ATF agent to pose as drug dealer soliciting 1,000 fentanyl pills from Sunil Someria, who was reached through the encrypted messaging app Signal.
Three similar stints ocurred between January 15 and March 5, with the final operation — which would lead to the arrests — happening on Wednesday, March 18, when ATF’s undercover agent arranged to buy 8,000 fentanyl pills for $16,000 from the elder Someria, documents show.
Roughly 30 minutes before the transaction, authorities said they observed Anand Someria meet with the Randalls in a Miramar storage unit parking lot and load a black bag into the father and son’s Hyundai Sonata.
When the undercover agent met with Sunil Someria at the “trap house,” the agent was told to “follow him to a spot that was 5 minutes away,” a unit at the Avant at Pembroke Pines Apartments described as “the stash house,” investigators wrote.
Once parked, Sunil Someria apologized to the undercover agent for the delay, adding one of his friends was just caught selling to an undercover agent, so things were “hot,” documents show. Sunil Someria then led the undercover ATF agent to the backseat of the Randalls’ car nearby to see the drugs, authorities said.
The father was in the driver’s seat, and his son sat in the front passenger seat, investigators noted.
The money and pills were exchanged after the younger Jonathon Randall instructed his father to “pop the trunk, Dad,” revealing the black bag containing 8,000 pressed fentanyl pills, reads the complaint.
Following the deal, the Somerias returned to their Miramar apartment, where they were served a search warrant and later arrested, along with Lake.
The Randall father and son — who investigators said “frequented the Trap House on (a) daily basis” — were arrested at their Pembroke Pines home also later on March 18, documents show.
“Charles advised that he had just (done) a favor for a friend and then refused to answer further questions,” investigators wrote in the complaint.
Lake, Charles and Jonathan Randall are being held at Broward Main Jail with no bond on a U.S. Marshals hold as of March 23.
The Someria brothers were bonded out for $10,000 on the condition of residing with their mother in Miramar on house arrest.
This story was originally published March 20, 2026 at 6:38 PM.
