A Florida Man being booked into jail sought to smuggle narcotics into the lockup that were hidden inside his prosthetic leg, police charge.
Keith Adams, 37, was arrested early Saturday during a traffic stop near his residence in Largo, a city in the Tampa Bay area. Adams, who was a passenger in the vehicle, was sitting atop a “glass pipe
which contained a thick white residue which field tested positive for cocaine.”
When sheriff’s deputies sought to detain Adams, he allegedly struggled with cops and was taken to the ground, where he was handcuffed.
Arrested for cocaine possession and resisting, Adams who has a prosthetic leg was “specifically asked before transport to the jail if anything was concealed in his leg, and warned bringing it into the jail would be an additional charge.”
SLO County residents dispose of expired medication on National Drug Take Back Day
Erin Fe
and last updated 2021-04-24 22:06:33-04
A lot of people have full medicine cabinets that are huge sources of clutter or worse, pose a danger for abuse of prescription medication.
To discourage recreational abuse, the California Highway Patrol and the SLO Opioid Safety Coalition partnered up to host a drug take back program at the CHP office on California St. from 10:00 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Saturday.
Anyone could stop by and drop off their expired, unused or unwanted medication, drugs, and vitamins with no questions asked.
A Grand Junction man has been found guilty of distributing fentanyl and counterfeit substances that resulted in the death of a Carbondale man in 2017.
Bruce Holder, 55, of Grand Junction, was convicted of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and counterfeit substances, distribution of fentanyl resulting in death, distribution of fentanyl and distribution of a counterfeit substance. He will be sentenced in August.
Prosecutors established that Holder, working with his wife, children and other members of his family, distributed pills that looked like Oxycodone pills but were counterfeit and spiked with fentanyl. He distributed tens of thousands of pills in western Colorado, according to a news release.
Fentanyl Seizures at Southern U.S. Border Have Increased 233% in One Year
On 4/19/21 at 11:32 AM EDT
Seizures of the deadly drug fentanyl increased by about 233 percent between March 2021 and last year as U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials say the 652 pounds seized at the southwest border last month is part of a concerted increase in drug smuggling operations.
Data released by CBP Friday revealed that border agents have seized 2,098 pounds of fentanyl, compared with 639 pounds uncovered along the southwest border during the same period last year. The number of seizure events is nearly identical to one year ago, but public health officials continue to warn that drug overdose deaths likely exceeded more than 90,000 in 2020 and are on track to worsen in 2021. GOP lawmakers in Washington have pounced on the fentanyl seizure increase as the fault of President Joe Biden s inability to control the border surge of migrants.
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In Part One of this effort, I focused on three specific matters which, if I was defending Derek Chauvin, I would be sure to emphasize in my closing argument. Those areas were:
That the perspective of trained medical professionals and experts is of limited use in evaluating the actions of a police officer who does not have the same training and was not working with the benefit of videos, written reports, and full understanding of George Floyd’s medical problems.
Repeatedly remind the jury that the prosecution’s own expert said Chauvin’s knee across Floyd’s back and neck played no role in the mechanism of Floyd’s death, and drive home the idea that the prosecution purposely misled the jury by making so much of the position of Chauvin’s knee with the witnesses at the scene and the use of force experts. They knew their primary medical expert on “cause of death” would say the position of his knee was not relevant.