Octavia Wells, a Bay County, Florida resident, has had run-ins with the law before. Her record reflected previous drug charges and several moving violations, causing her license to be suspended by the state.

One New Year’s Eve before skipping town, Wells was looking to ring in 2025 with a bit of fentanyl. She texted her dealer to get a score, who then arranged to meet Wells at a gas station, reported WAFB.

Except she’d learn very quickly she was not meeting her dealer. Instead, she was meeting with a Bay County Sheriff’s Department narcotics investigator, who she accidentally texted instead of her dealer.

The officer went undercover, carried on the conversation as the dealer, and arrested Wells on the scene. Officers charged her with unlawful use of a two-way device, possession of drugs, and driving with a suspended license.

Readers had their own theories as to what happened to her dealer

Several readers of the WAFB’s Facebook post were suspicious as to why she had the investigator’s number in her cell phone.

“Obviously she had both the plug and the police officer programmed into her phone… Score one for Karma!” wrote a viewer.

Another assumed that the narcotics investigator’s number was similar to her dealer’s and that it was purely a happy accident.

“It’s possible the narcotics officer’s number was similar to the dealer’s number and she just put in the wrong number,” they assumed. “She was looking for fentanyl, she could’ve been loaded. And it’s possible it was a set up or the dealer was popped and she didn’t know the cops had his phone.”

Someone else said it was similar to another crime where the criminals were hilariously caught.

“This is almost as bad as the bank robber who left their phone on the counter!”

Another thought it was serendipitous that she accidentally texted the wrong number.

“That accident probably saved her life!” they wrote.