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• 3 held for operating major drug racket in Orlando nightclubs

  By: Admin On: 07-26-2017 Category: Addiction, drug abuse, drug bust Comment: 0

  

  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

  By: Admin On: 06-13-2017 Category: Addiction, drug bust, Drug trafficking Comment: 0

  

  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

  By: Admin On: 05-10-2017 Category: Addiction, drug abuse, drug bust, Drug trafficking Comment: 0

  

  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

  By: Admin On: 04-05-2017 Category: Addiction, drug abuse, drug bust Comment: 0

  

  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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• Synthetic marijuana racket busted in Orlando

  By: Admin On: 03-10-2017 Category: Addiction, drug bust, Marijuana Comment: 0

  

  Lately, marijuana has become the drug of choice for millions of adolescents in the United States. This could largely be attributed to the state laws that approve the use of marijuana for medical purposes. But, with synthetic marijuana, also known as Spice or K2, getting increasingly popular among the youth, the situation has deteriorated further. […]

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