New Florida Governor Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi have indicated they plan to target doctors and pharmaceutical manufacturers who, according to them, distribute pain pills such as Oxycodone and Oxycontin to drug abusers and drug dealers. The recently announced the formation of a new strike force for that…
Normally, a person in Florida has a privacy right attached to the vehicle he/she is driving and as a result, a police officer is not allowed to search that vehicle for illegal drugs or other evidence without permission, a search warrant or probable cause to believe there is evidence of…
The governor of Kentucky recently signed a new law that was designed to save money, decrease the number of prison inmates and reduce crime by reducing prison time for non-violent offenders who possess illegal drugs. The money saved from the lower prison inmate population is diverted to drug rehabilitation programs…
Law enforcement officials in Jacksonville, Florida raided the home of a 91 year old woman searching for marijuana plants, according to an article on News4Jax.com. Apparently, they found 19 marijuana plants in the home near Dupont Middle School in the San Jose area. It was not clear why nineteen marijuana…
Methamphetamine labs, typically houses, apartments or trailers where people use various chemicals and equipment to make methamphetamine, are on the increase in St. Johns County, according to the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office. In the article, the St. Johns County sergeant discusses three arrests related to three separate St. Johns…
Pain clinics in Florida have become big business over the last few years. Billboards and other advertisements for pain clinics have popped up all over Florida. However, along with their recent popularity, scrutiny by law enforcement has followed. Local, state and federal police and law enforcement agencies have spent a…
Foxnews.com recently published an article about a raid of a suspected “pill mill” where the reporter accompanied the police on the raid. In Jacksonville and other cities in Florida, local, state and federal law enforcement officials have been targeting pain clinics and doctors whom they suspect are providing pain medicine…
Twenty-one people were charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana in Brunswick, Georgia federal court, according to an article on News4Jax.com. A few of them were also indicted on related weapons charges. The indictments were the result of a lengthy investigation by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), the Georgia…
As criminal defense lawyers in the Jacksonville, Florida area, we have seen many more possession, sale and trafficking cases that involve pills such as Hydrocodone, Oxycodone, Oxycontin and other controlled substances that are legal with a valid prescription. The laws in Florida can be very harsh for such crimes with…
Clay County police raided the Total Medical Express clinic off of Blanding Boulevard in Orange Park, Florida and made several arrests of some of its patients and an office manager, according to an article on FirstCoastnews.com. The police allege that the pain clinic was unlicensed and was giving out narcotic…