A 75-year-old Citrus County man has been arrested and charged with selling significant amounts of marijuana. According to the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office, a search warrant served at a Floral City residence Tuesday morning resulted in this arrest. During the execution of the search warrant, detectives allegedly located 464 grams…
Boynton Beach police went undercover Monday, hit a host of “hot spots” and jailed nearly a dozen in Operation Buy Bye. Confidential informants apparently facilitated many of the hookups. The shopping lists included heroin, fentanyl, ecstasy and crack cocaine. The buys went down in parking lots at Walmart, Chevron and…
Six people were arrested in a drug raid Tuesday after neighbors complained about needles in their yards and suspicious traffic in and out of a home on Tanager Road. According to the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office, a search warrant was executed at the home, and investigators found hypodermic needles,…
Three high school students were arrested on campus Thursday on Ocala and accused of possessing marijuana-laced cookies/brownies. Two of the students are 17, and the third is 18. Each is charged with possession of marijuana more than 20 grams. One of the younger teens has an additional charge of possession…
A Clearwater doctor has pleaded guilty to one count of health-care fraud and has agreed to surrender her DEA registration number, her Florida medical license and to a permanent exclusion from Medicare and Medicaid programs, according to the justice department. The 66-year-old woman violated a Florida law that requires doctors…
An undercover drug sting that began in March led to the arrest of a St. Augustine man accused of running a drug house on Grove Avenue, according to reports. The 29-year-old was arrested Tuesday on a warrant charging him with selling heroin from his home, which is within 1,000 feet…
A Key West firefighter was caught with cocaine at work, according to police. The 26-year-old was arrested Friday on a felony charge of cocaine possession after a police dog alerted officers to a locker inside a bedroom where the man was staying. The K-9 also sniffed out the man’s truck…
Some changes are coming our way in Florida. More than 100 bills that Gov. Rick Scott signed into law from the 2018 legislative session will take kick in Sunday, including a new state budget that tops $88 billion. Take a peek at the laws slated to take effect Sunday: State…
Todd Macaluso, a San Diego lawyer who once represented Casey Anthony, was sentenced to federal prison for 15 years for plotting to pilot a plane full of cocaine. He was sentenced Thursday in Brooklyn federal court, months after he was found guilty of being part of an international drug ring.…
An anonymous call to the St. Augustine police Saturday morning led to the arrest of two people on drug possession. Police claim they responded to a parking lot on South Dixie Highway and found three people sitting in a car. The people in the car allegedly consented to a search…