In mid-2008, a relative of A.T. contacted the law office of Lasnetski Gihon Law in Jacksonville, Florida after A.T. was arrested for conspiracy to traffic MDMA (aka ecstasy). This criminal charge of conspiracy to traffic ecstasy is a first degree felony which carried a minimum sentence of 15 years in…
Police in Orange Park, Clay County, Florida raided a house pursuant to a suspected illegal marijuana growing operation, according to an article on News4Jax.com. According to the article, the Clay County police officers seized numerous marijuana plants and observed marijuana growing equipment such as lights and ventilation equipment in the…
The new U.S. Attorney General in President Obama’s administration stated that the federal government has changed its policy and will not raid medical marijuana establishments in states where selling marijuana for medicinal purposes is legal. Medical marijuana is legal in thirteen states. Florida is not one of them, and none…
At a time when the Florida and U.S. economies and credit markets are in a downward spiral, people and governments often have to innovate to recover. The idea of legalizing marijuana should not be considered groundbreaking, progressive thinking in 2009, but it is far from accepted as appropriate and far…
The following situation occurred south of Jacksonville, Florida and involved an illegal search of a person for drugs. The person was the passenger of a vehicle that was stopped due to an inoperable taillight. The police officer suspected that the occupants of the vehicle may have had drugs or stashed…
With the new administration, the federal government will shift its focus regarding federal drug crimes. It appears that the Obama administration will focus more on rehabilitation and be less stringent with nonviolent first-time federal drug offenders than the prior Bush administration. Some of the highlights of the Obama administration’s policies…
A doctor in Columbia County, Florida (which is about an hour west of Jacksonville, Florida) was arrested on charges of assisting in obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and unauthorized possession of prescription forms. In a prior post, we discussed how law enforcement authorities in Jacksonville and other areas in…
The U.S. Justice Department issues a yearly report on the threat created by illegal drugs in the United States. This National Drug Threat Assessment is a lengthy report that discusses various drugs, where they come from, who is using them, who is selling them, how drug dealing is financed, the…
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO) announced that three people were arrested (Alex Campbell, Frederick Campbell and Temario Wiley) on drug trafficking charges after police found a large amount of marijuana that had been delivered by UPS to a house on Praver Drive in Jacksonville. The Jacksonville police also seized $500,000…
A Jacksonville, Florida elementary school teacher at Cedar Hills Elementary School (Gina Cevasco) was arrested after Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO) officers reportedly responded to her house in reference to a drug complaint, according to an article on News4Jax.com. The JSO officers apparently obtained consent to search the house from her…