Teen avoids jail time after caught with drugs with former Lee County Commissioner

CREATED Jan. 9, 2013 - UPDATED: Jan. 10, 2013

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FORT MYERS, Fla.- A Fort Myers teenager caught with drugs while in car with a former Lee County Commissioner will avoid jail time.

19-year-old David Henley accepted responsibility for charges including possession of cocaine and marijuana and driving without a license. In return he will not go to jail. 

Henley was pulled over in November while driving former County Commissioner Brian Bigelow in a  car rented by Bigelow.  The 19-year-old did not have a license and was taken to jail where he reportedly admitted to having cocaine and marijuana on him. 

Bigelow has plead not guilty to a charge of allowing an unauthorized person to drive his car.