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The Pasco County Sheriff's Office recently mailed updated information to convenience stores throughout the area related to bans on synthetic drugs. At least one store blatantly ignored the letter and the new laws and was fined and warned. One of the co-owners and a...
Two 37-year-old St. George men have been recently charged in Tampa County with possession of marijuana and conspiracy with a third man to distribute the substance, in violation of federal law. The indictment was until recently sealed. In addition to the identities of...
A college football player from Pensacola and a rising cornerback for the Florida Gators was arrested and charged with a drug offense after police found a few grams of marijuana in the car he was riding in. He was sitting in the back seat of the vehicle when it was...
As readers in Tampa probably know, the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures of people's bodies, homes and property. This clause is important because it takes away law enforcement's ability to conduct random searches of...
When Tampa residents are assigned to a jury in a high-profile criminal trial, the judge usually instructs them not to read or watch news reports about the case. One idea behind this legal principle is that evidence that was not allowed in court may be reported,...
When prosecutors in Hillsborough County charge people with a drug crime, they frequently rely on laboratory testing to convince the court that the accused person had drugs in his or her system at the time of their arrest. People might assume that workers in those labs...
In the past few years, there have been a number of incidents across the country in which crime labs have been investigated for failing to adhere to standards and regulations. In such situations, when a crime lab is found to have acted improperly, evidence previously...
In an unusual case, prosecutors have asked a federal judge to dismiss charges filed against a Florida doctor in 2007. When the charges were initially filed, the doctor was allegedly involved in a huge operation, in which he sold prescription medications to patients he...