Maybe you share your drugs with a friend who just had a back injury. Maybe you sold a few pills because you just needed to make the bills. Maybe you're just dealing enough to support your own habit. You're careful about who knows what you're doing, and you never...
Drug Charges
Doctor’s assets targeted in civil forfeiture over opioids
The federal government has moved to seize $1.6 million in assets from a doctor accused of operating a pill mill that operated in Tennessee and Kentucky. The curious thing about this is that the doctor has yet to be formally charged. The move was likely not a surprise...
Key member of Florida House questions retroactive sentencing
There have been a lot of changes under Florida's laws to the way that people are prosecuted and sentenced for drug crimes. However, there are hundreds of prisoners doing time for drug offenses under the old laws. In Nov. 2018, voters in the state approved a measure...
Is it possible to beat a felony drug charge?
Being charged with a felony drug possession charge is scary and intimidating. You may be facing some serious time behind bars if you're convicted. You may even be so despondent about your chances of avoiding a conviction that you're contemplating pleading guilty and...
Pain doctor jailed for taking bribes to prescribe drugs
Do speaking fees equal bribery? Prosecutors may think so.One of five New York doctors charged in 2018 with taking bribes from an Arizona-based pharmaceutical company has been sentenced to two years in federal prison by a United States District Court judge.Just two...
Florida and feds are cracking down on drug traffickers
Florida authorities and those in the federal government are aggressively pursuing drug traffickers these days. According to news reports, there have been at least four significant drug trafficking arrests in the state since July.The haul from three regular busts and...
How Florida police are cashing in on the drug crisis
Heading to California through Fort Lauderdale International Airport?You'd better hope that you don't smell like cannabis to Broward County sheriffs. That's the excuse that they've used to search the belongings of people heading out of the airport to California and to...
Another Florida city decriminalizes some drug charges
Thousands of people in Florida have been charged with possession of drugs, drug paraphernalia or drug distribution. These criminal charges can have far-reaching consequences on the liberty, family and career of suspects. This is one of the reasons that many people...
Florida officer caught planting drugs on defendant
Right at this moment, there are defendants sitting in a Florida jail or sweating out the wait to their trial for a drug crime -- even though the prosecutor's office is aware that they're likely innocent.An assistant state attorney noticed a number of disturbing things...
Women: The new face of inmates
In large part due to changes in marijuana laws, there's been a slight dip in the number of prisoners serving time or awaiting trial in American jails. But this country still incarcerates more of its citizens than any other nation -- and many of them are female....
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