Posted on 06/22/2009 8:49:41 PM PDT by JeepInMazar
FORT PIERCE — A 40-year-old man who is suspected of trying to sell bread as crack cocaine to pay bills is facing charges, according to an arrest affidavit released Monday.
A deputy about 12:50 a.m. Sunday saw a man identified as Timothy Allen Riggin, of the 600 block of Avenue E, peeking around the rear building of the Nowalk Motel.
Riggin ran from the deputy, but was apprehended near U.S. 1. Investigators turned up several pieces of faux crack cocaine in his pocket, according to the affidavit.
“When I located the counterfeit crack, the male immediately said it was bread,” the affidavit states. “I asked him what he meant and he said it is fake crack.”
Riggin, listed as unemployed, said he was trying to sell the bogus crack to pay bills, according to the report.
He faces a felony possession of counterfeit controlled substance with intent to sell within 1,000 feet of a convenience store charge and a misdemeanor count of resisting without violence.
What law did he break? Defrauding dope heads? It is bread not crack. Yeah it is stupid but law did he break?
This is so wrong - it should not be a serious crime to hoodwink a drug user :-)
Crack wheat?
WTF did America go?
/johnny
Are you sure this isn’t from The Onion?
Within 1,000 feet of a convenience store?? Is it possible to NOT be within 1000 ft of a convenience store in some parts of Florida?? Geez might as well ask him to be 1000ft from a nursing home as well!! LOL
Glad to see the cops are pursuing such dangerous criminals. Stupid War on Drug Users. Lemme guess, the penalty for false advertising is death by stoning?
The perp did have some awesome poppy seed buns.
Yeah, I hope there are laws requiring truth in advertising. I would be PISSED if someone tried to sell me bunk!
I’m sure the Better Business Bureau has a thick case file on this guy for crack fraud.
The article says, "felony possession of counterfeit controlled substance with intent to sell within 1,000 feet of a convenience store." WTF?!! Sounds like some goofy state law. The convenience store doesn't like the competition?
FORT PIERCE?
I guess people ripping off drug users is a whole new thing for the cops in Fort Pierce.
lol...
It’s often referred to as the “burn rule”.
lol...Florida's big industries, greedy marts and old folks homes.
Florida law.
831.31 Counterfeit controlled substance; sale, manufacture, delivery, or possession with intent to sell, manufacture, or deliver.--
(1) It is unlawful for any person to sell, manufacture, or deliver, or to possess with intent to sell, manufacture, or deliver, a counterfeit controlled substance.
I haven't found the additional element of "within 1,000 feet of a convenience store." I'm guessing that's a general offense enhancement found in some other section of Florida law, as the state attempts to keep the riff raff away from the convenience stores.
PORT ST. LUCIE - A planned trick on a friend involving a bag of parsley turned into an arrest for a 15-year-old local boy, according to a police report released Monday. ...The [15 year old] boy said he was going to play a trick on his friend. He said he had a bag of parsley that he was going to make his friend think was marijuana. The parsley, which he got from his kitchen cabinet, was in a clear plastic bag and appeared similar to pot. ...
The 15-year-old boy was arrested on a charge of possession of a counterfeit controlled substance with the intent to deliver.
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