It is an accepted fact that prescription pill abuse is a major problem in Florida. There have been articles mentioning pill mills and talk that cracking down on them has helped fuel the rise of heroin in Florida. Now a great article in the Tampa Bay Times website talks about…
From BayNews9, a local mobile home park was the scene of several arrests involving drugs. After months of complaints about drug sales from local park residences, the Pinellas Park police department finally struck back. A monthlong police investigation netted seven arrests at Palm Village Mobile Home park on 66th street.…
A brief blurb from CBS news about a modern day “Scarface” who had a drug empire online and how it unraveled… Cornelis Jan “SuperTrips” Slomp, a 23-year-old Dutchman, almost had it all. Great wealth, easy job and travels around the world. Then came his arrest in Miami, Florida. Young and…
From the BayNews 9 website, 10 men were arrested for operating a synthetic marijuana ring… An almost year-long investigation involving nine states culminated with the arrests of 10 people in what police called “Operation Spice King”. The suspects were arrested in Pinellas County. Police claimed that the suspects were manufacturing…
We have previously blogged about college players getting arrested for a dui, then a former Bucs’ player for domestic battery. Now a current Tampa Bay player, Akeem Spence, gets his turn via an article in the Tampa Bay Times. The rookie defensive lineman was pulled over on a traffic stop…
From the TBO online, a case of life imitating art… 28-year-old Ryan Carroll was arrested after a Tuesday morning raid by local police in Fort Myers, Florida. After a tip from a package delivery service, police obtained a search warrant for his home and two others. After the raid, the…
Putting the “con” back in congress? From the baynews nine website, a Florida politician is apologizing to the voters and is now seeking treatment after being arrested on a cocaine charge… 37-year-old Rep. Henry Radel pleaded guilty in open court to a misdemeanor charge of possession of cocaine this morning.…
From the Tampa Bay Times, local firefighters respond to a fire. What they find led one man to felony charges… In Saint Petersburg, local firefighters responded to calls of a house on fire. The man inside the house surprised the firemen by refusing to let them in. They soon found…
From a local CBS news affiliate, a suburban housewife is busted after police discover a large marijuana growing operation in her upscale suburban home… The woman, Andrea Sanderlin, was charged with growing thousands of marijuana plants from her home. This was done, in part, to finance her lifestyle of vacations,…
As first reported on the Baynews Nine website, it may soon be against the law to sell synthetic marijuana (also known as K2 or “spice”) in the St. Petersburg city limits. The Mayor, Bill Foster, wants to move forward on his plan to ban the sales of this so-called drug.…