Jacksonville police raided a home off of Ivey Road in the Southside area of Jacksonville, FL and ultimately made eleven drug arrests allegedly related to fraudulent prescriptions, according to an article on News4Jax.com. The article indicates that the owner of the home was arrested and accused of printing false prescriptions…
As the number of people laid off and otherwise unemployed in Florida grows, one Florida legislator has proposed to require people to pass a drug test before they can receive unemployment benefits, according to an article at Rawstory.com. The Florida legislator claimed that he is concerned that the unemployment compensation…
This article was posted at elamb.org to help expose a scam to get corporations to pay $150 for nothing. The scam involves a letter that is sent to corporations across the country that seems to indicate that corporations are required to file the minutes of their annual corporate meetings with…
If you have been arrested for a crime in Jacksonville or any other part of Florida, or if you have been arrested and formally charged with a crime in Florida, you may be eligible to have your criminal record expunged. The Florida legislature has enacted laws which indicate when a…
When the police in Jacksonville, Florida and other cities throughout the country find what they suspect to be illegal drugs, whether it is marijuana, cocaine, GHB or the many other narcotics, they will often use what is referred to as a field test kit to quickly test whether the substance…
A man who was convicted of driving while intoxicated/DWI in New York (which is called driving under the influence, or DUI, in Florida) was ordered to have an ignition interlock device placed on his vehicle as part of his sentence. The ignition interlock device is a mechanism that requires the…
All residents of Florida, and the United States as a whole, are protected by the Fourth Amendment which protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures by police. One aspect of the law on searches and seizures generally requires police to obtain a search warrant before entering someone’s home to look…
The United States Supreme Court (USSC) recently decided a case dealing with when police officers can search the vehicle of a person who has recently been arrested. The USSC’s ruling seems to pretty significantly limit a police officer’s right to search a person’s vehicle incident to an arrest when compared…
If you have been arrested and charged with a crime in Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida and entered a plea of guilty or no contest to the charge, there may be a way to withdraw that plea and proceed with your defense to the criminal charge. After a defendant in a…
Eleven people were arrested and approximately $24 million worth of cocaine and marijuana were seized as a result of a recent drug investigation in Palatka, Putnam County, Florida (which is about an hour south of Jacksonville, Florida), according to an article on Firstcoastnews.com. The cocaine and marijuana drug investigation involved…