A Florida man has filed a lawsuit against the city of Orlando as well as a drug testing company that manufactures roadside drug testing kits that officers use. The man was arrested in December 2015 after he was pulled over for allegedly speeding. The man reports that...
On Oct. 13, a 27-year-old Florida woman was taken into custody for possession of cocaine and driving with a suspended license. The woman was being held at a Key West area jail when a package arrived for her that one deputy found suspicious. According to a...
Florida is one of four states that the American Civil Liberties Union focused on in a report that found people serving long sentences for possessing only small amounts of a drug. According to the ACLU, a significant amount of time and resources are put toward...
Rapper Kodak Black was sentenced to 120 days in jail after he plead no contest to two misdemeanor charges in Florida on Sept. 19. The charges were for being in possession of 20 grams or less of cannabis as well as being in possession of drug paraphernalia. In addition...
Florida residents may have heard that, on Aug. 30, President Barack Obama ended the sentences of 111 federal inmates who had been convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. In the past, the president had sought to phase out strict punishments for nonviolent drug offenses...
A 43-year-old man was taken into custody after an accident that occurred on Aug. 22 on Interstate 10 in Florida. According to authorities, the man's truck had drifted onto the shoulder of the road near mile marker 19. He then steered left, which caused the car to...
A field test for drugs returns a positive for cocaine. But the "cocaine" is really Tylenol PM. Another field test shows marijuana, but the "marijuana" is actually Hershey's chocolate. Finally, when nothing is put into the field test kit, a positive result is still...
On July 1, a new law, known as Senate Bill 1044, went into effect in Florida. The law-signed by Gov. Rick Scott on April 1-places limits on civil forfeiture. Civil forfeiture funds are money or property that law enforcement seizes if it suspects these things were...
When a person suffers some type of serious injury or is diagnosed with an otherwise debilitating medical condition, there's a very good chance that their treating physician will prescribe them some type of narcotic to help manage their pain. As we've seen on seemingly...
Criminal investigations can sometimes span months or even years before authorities act on suspicions of illegal activity. Unfortunately for two men in Florida, an investigation recently led to their arrests on drug charges. Reports stated that authorities allegedly...
