Federal law enforcement authorities show up at your company with a search warrant to search the entire premises of the business including computers, customer files, billing and accounts receivable information, internal memoranda, bank account information and training materials. They conduct an extensive search and seize a variety of materials from…
If a police officer in Jacksonville or anywhere else in Florida pulls you over and suspects that you are under the influence of alcohol, he/she will likely conduct a DUI (driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs) investigation. This typically consists of questions about where you have been, whether…
A common situation that occurs in Jacksonville, Florida involves a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office officer responding to a crime and questioning people in the vicinity of the crime to learn who committed the crime. Let’s assume that the police suspect that a bystander committed the reported crime, approach him and ask…
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…
On Wednesday of this week, Georgia and federal law enforcement officials searched the offices of Dr. William Nelson pursuant to a joint investigation involving Drug Enforcement Agency agents and Glynn County and City of Brunswick, Georgia local police (St. Simon’s Island, Georgia is just over an hour north of Jacksonville,…
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…
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…
In only four months of this school year, Jacksonville, Florida school officials have found twelve guns in Jacksonville area schools, according to an article on News4Jax.com. As school administrators indicated, they may address this problem by increasing searches of students including random searches of their backpacks, their lockers, classrooms and…