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• Florida attorney general sues opioid makers over prescription drug crisis

  Published On: 05-29-2018 in Category: Addiction, Addiction Treatment, Drug overdose

  

  Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi recently filed a lawsuit against some of the biggest opioid makers in the country for the drug epidemic they fueled in the state over the years. Bondi alleged that nine drug manufactures and their subsidiaries used unethical marketing tactics, leading to the ongoing opioid crisis. In accordance with the lawsuits […]

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• More Magic Kingdom restaurants add alcohol to their menus

  Published On: 05-18-2018 in Category: alcohol

  

  Alcohol would now be available rather easily at The Disney World’s Magic Kingdom with two more restaurants getting permission to serve alcoholic beverages to their guests over the age of 21. As per reports, the permission might have been granted to improve the profit earning capability of the two diners – The Crystal Palace and […]

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• Authorities seize cocaine, alprazolam pills from former Orlando school teacher

  Published On: 02-23-2018 in Category: Drug trafficking

  

  Parents of children studying in an Orange County school were shocked after an employee was recently arrested for drug trafficking. Johnny Lopez, who earlier taught at Pinecrest Preparatory Charter School in Orlando, was arrested on Feb. 1, 2018, during a traffic stop at Southwest Martin Highway and I-95 in Palm City, Martin County. Lopez, 25, […]

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• Orlando gets its second medical marijuana dispensary

  Published On: 12-20-2017 in Category: Marijuana

  

  Trulieve, the one stop for medical cannabis products run by North Florida’s Hackney Nursery, opened a second dispensary in Orlando on Nov. 28, 2017, at 4544 N. Orange Blossom Trail in the Lake Fairview neighborhood. The latest outlet is one of three dispensaries, which the city of Orlando approved in 2016. Trulieve also has plans […]

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• Florida Highway Patrol arrests van driver for DUI

  Published On: 11-22-2017 in Category: alcohol

  

  The Florida Highway Patrol on Oct. 10, 2017, arrested a 39-year-old man in Edgewater on charges of driving under the influence (DUI) after his van crashed near the junction of State Road 44 and State Road 415 at New Smyrna Beach in Volusia County. According to patrol officers, Mark Hackstie fled the scene of the […]

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• Man pleads guilty to drug trafficking using postal services, laundering $1.5M

  Published On: 09-04-2017 in Category: Addiction, Drug trafficking

  

  An alleged drug ring leader who operated out of Orlando, Florida recently pleaded guilty to laundering over $1.5 million in drug proceeds, a media report said. The drug trafficking gang was involved in distributing highly addictive drugs, such as fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine. Interestingly, it used U.S. Postal Service, Federal Express, etc. to deliver […]

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• 3 held for operating major drug racket in Orlando nightclubs

  Published On: 07-26-2017 in Category: Addiction, drug abuse, drug bust

  

  After almost a year of collective investigative efforts, detectives from the Orlando Police Department (OPD) on July 12, 2017, arrested three suspects on charges of operating a major drug distribution racket in the area’s nightclubs. Police officers also seized large quantities of party drugs, such as steroids, cocaine, LSD, ecstasy, Xanax, marijuana and methamphetamine from […]

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• Orlando car crash leads to seizure of heroin, meth

  Published On: 06-13-2017 in Category: Addiction, drug bust, Drug trafficking

  

  Two Orlando residents were arrested on May 5, 2017, for transporting heroin, meth and marijuana in a car. They were taken into custody after their car crashed near State Road 85. Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office (OCSO) deputies observed a speeding car on Interstate 10 and attempted to pull the vehicle over. However, the 26-year-old driver, […]

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• ‘Last’ member of Cocaine Cowboys arrested in Orlando

  Published On: 05-10-2017 in Category: Addiction, drug abuse, drug bust, Drug trafficking

  

  Federal authorities in Florida on April 12, 2017, arrested 55-year-old Gustavo Falcon, a member of the infamous “Cocaine Cowboys,” a drug trafficking organization that dominated the drug business in the state during the 1980s. Speaking to the Miami Herald, Barry Golden, a senior investigator working with the U.S. Marshals’ South Florida office, said that Gustavo […]

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• Brevard assistant state attorney accused of buying opioids

  Published On: 04-05-2017 in Category: Addiction, drug abuse, drug bust

  

  An assistant state attorney has been arrested on charges of purchasing opioid pills without prescription during a drug bust operation. John Michael Toppa III of Melbourne, who worked with the Brevard State Attorney’s Office, is said to have bought 10 pills of Roxicodone 30 mg in Rockledge City in Brevard County, Florida on March 9, […]

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