Monthly Archives: July 2024
How Many Degrees of Separation Are You From a Life Sentence for Drug Conspiracy?
Florida law makes a lot of threats, and Floridians happily ignore them. Lawmakers threaten to impose life sentences for drug trafficking, while Floridians go on injecting, ingesting, and inhaling with little regard for which drugs are on which schedule of controlled substances, and which drugs are even present in the powders and pills they… Read More »
Who’s Afraid of Tuci?
The gossip about the legal problems surrounding Sean Combs, the recording artist and entrepreneur who has variously been known by the stage names Puff Daddy and Diddy, just keeps getting more complicated. This spring, an associate of Combs, Brendan Paul, was arrested at an airport in Miami and accused of transporting drugs at Combs’s… Read More »
Broward Men Face Criminal Charges After Throwing Backpack Full of Drugs Out the Window on Alligator Alley
If you want to ditch a backpack full of stuff you aren’t supposed to have, there are worse places to do it than Alligator Alley at night. An isolated stretch of road, surrounded by alligator-infested marshes connecting Florida’s Gold Coast to the Paradise Coast, is one of the few places in Florida you can… Read More »
Take a Deep Breath and Turn Yourself In
Florida has a lot of scary things. The ordinary afternoon thunderstorms are so terrifying that any reasonable person would head for the hills long before Florida appears in the cone projecting the path of a tropical storm or hurricane. Nutria and iguanas are everywhere, and even the ducks that hang around Florida’s numerous man… Read More »
