"Breaking Bad on Steroids" Discovered with Thousands of Pounds of Designer Drug | Crime Alert 4PM 12.05.25

A massive Florida drug and weapons operation described by the sheriff as “Breaking Bad on steroids” is uncovered after deputies seize ninety-two thousand pounds of illegal substances, automatic weapons, and explosive materials from a Palm Bay warehouse. A Florida woman is now convicted after a fake home-invasion rape report built on a viral AI “homeless man” prank unraveled under police review. Drew Nelson reports

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Crime Alert hourly update, Breaking crime News Now.

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I'm Drew Nelson. It's being described like a drug dealing
kingdom on drugs. A massive Florida drug and weapons operation
described by the sheriff as quote breaking bad on steroids
uncovered after deputies seize ninety two thousand pounds of illegal substances,
automatic weapons, and explosive materials from a Palm Bay warehouse.
The suspect is twenty six year old Maxwell horvoth Our.

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TV news partners at Fox thirty five Orlando report he
is accused of running the operation through a business called
Overseas Organics. Deputies arrested him in Brevard County after a
month's long investigation that began in September. Investigators say the
main substance seized was a kratim based drug known as
seven to Ozer. Sheriff Wayne Ivy tells us how it's made.

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It's crato, but then they extract the synthetic component of it.
When that's compressed and put into a pill form, it's
thirteen times more powerful than morphine. So the seven zero
is the stuff that we're talking about.

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The warrant was originally focused only on the drugs the guns,
were a surprise.

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He had automatic weapons in there. Not only is he
convicted felon, but he didn't have any type of stamps
or anything else to be able to possess those weapons.

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Deputies also discovered explosives and the materials used to make them.

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When you look at fifty pounds of precursors that could
be used to make bombs that would do substantial damagement.

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Authority say Brevard Deputies, Palm Bay Police, the Drug Enforcement Administration,
and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives all
worked the case. The search taking place Wednesday at the
warehouse in Palm Bay. Horvov has a prior federal conviction,
serving two years in federal prison beginning in twenty seventeen
for possession of an explosive device and trafficking MDMA. He

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was later placed on federal probation. Neighbors in Melbourne Tel
Fox thirty five, Orlando, they saw a frequent traffic at
the home where Harvov lived near Bronco Drive. They said
they had no idea what deputies now alleged was happening.
Raquel is one of the neighbors who didn't want us
to use her full name Frank that to describe that,
but shocked because again, feel very very safe here. Poor

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Vath faces dozens of weapons charges. More federal charges are expected.
Deputies are still working to determine if anyone else was involved.
Federal agencies are also reviewing whether terrorism related charges could apply.
More crime and justice news after this Afflorida woman stands

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convicted after a fake home invasion rape report built on
a viral AI homeless man prank unravels under police scrutiny.
Brooks Chenault is a thirty two year old Saint Petersburg resident.
She pleaded no contests this week to falsely reporting a
crime and was adjudged guilty of the misdemeanor. She was
fined and placed on probation. The Smoking Gun first reported
the conviction and released portions of the investigative file. In October,

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Chanlt called nine one one and claimed a white man
had forced his way into her apartment and raped her
while her infant slept nearby. She told police the man
knocked on her She says she opened it, claimed that
he pushed his way inside and knocked her to the ground.
She said he used her restroom and then sat on
her couch She claims she secretly took a photo of
him while he was seated. Please responded with seven officers

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and a detective, six rescue personnel, and a forensic technician
collecting DNA samples. Detective Dagny Klauser later reviewed the image
Chanel provided. He described a hoodie wearing white male in
his thirties, and his report, Klauser wrote, he immediately recognized
the image as fake. Quote, as I am familiar with
many social media sites and trends, I recognized the male

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as a TikTok challenge that is viral. Klauser identified the
trend as the AI homeless Man challenge. He explained how
it works in his report, saying quote most placed the
subject on their couch and then screenshot the result and
send to loved ones in a prank that places concerned
that an unknown subject is in their home. The detective
searched TikTok himself. He reported finding quote several TikTok reels

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of this challenge using the exact same picture Chanault claimed
was her attacker. When confronted by police, Chanault first claims
she had only used AI to sharpen a blurry photo.
She later admitted the man never existed. She told investigators
she created the image using Google and chat GPT to
fabricate a homeless man. Chanault told detectives that she had
been dealing with depression. She said she was not sleeping

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and admitted that she just wanted attention. The original sexual
battery investigation is now documented as a false police report.
A mother of two disappears from her home in Illinois
and an apparent abduction and has never seen again. Lisa
Michelle Stebbeck went missing from Plainfield, Illinois, April thirtieth of
two thousand and seven. A neighbor reported her missing the
next day. Her estranged husband later stated that he believed

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she had been taken from their shared residence about six pm.
Her car was still parked there, her purse and cell
phone were gone. There has been no activity on her
credit cards or phone since the night she vanished. The
case quickly drew wide media attention, with her husband refusing
to speak to police or take part in the search.
Lisa would be fifty six years old today. She may
have been using her maiden name Rutenberg. She is white

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at brown hair and brown eyes. When she disappeared, she
was five feet two at about one hundred and twenty
five pounds. She had a rose tattoo on her ankle,
a pink heart on her belly, and a butterfly with
her children's names, Zach and Lexi on her back. If
you have any information on her disappearance, contact the FBI
at eight hundred call FBI, or tipsot FBI dot gov.
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I'm Drew Nelson.