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Fort Pierce man suspected of trying to sell bread as crack cocaine
TCPalm ^ | June 22, 2009 | Will Greenlee

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: bread; cocaine; crack; crackcocaine; drugs; fakecrack; wtf
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To: JeepInMazar

Barry Soetoro sold himself as an American.

Selling magic beans is now illegal?


21 posted on 06/22/2009 9:23:36 PM PDT by NoLibZone (I swear by my life & my love of it, that I will never buy U.S.made goods again!- In Galts Vallley!)
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To: JeepInMazar

This is your brain. This is your brain on bread? Yummy. Any questeeeooohhhhnns?


22 posted on 06/22/2009 9:25:42 PM PDT by Miss Behave ("WE WANT FREEDOM!")
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To: JeepInMazar

Oabama tried to sell me flour as meth.

As proof - go to his house in Chicago in the pantry you’ll see the flour.


23 posted on 06/22/2009 9:26:01 PM PDT by NoLibZone (I swear by my life & my love of it, that I will never buy U.S.made goods again!- In Galts Vallley!)
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To: JeepInMazar
whoa man. one way to get toasted!

i have to wonder if the reason selling fake drugs is against the law is for the simple reason you could end up being murdered in a really nasty way.

24 posted on 06/22/2009 9:32:41 PM PDT by ferri (Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane. - Philip K. Dick)
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To: pnh102

They spend time and money trying to convict this dope and let child molesters get breaks and not spend any time in jail. I can’t believe I’m saying this but they should let go the convicts doing time for possession of pot (not with the intent to sell) just the low level users and jail all the hard criminals. If they convict this guy, Florida law is really messed up and useless.


25 posted on 06/22/2009 9:32:42 PM PDT by antiunion person (Illegals are like a black hole, they suck down everything around.)
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To: JeepInMazar
He faces a felony possession of counterfeit controlled substance

I think a lot of us here, not me of course, but generally a lot of us, could be charged with this crime. Do YOU have flour or bread or sugar or salt or baking powder?

26 posted on 06/22/2009 9:40:39 PM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: JeepInMazar

So he’s guilty of perpetrating a fraud against customers of the Mob. That’s just terrible. The defaults to come, though, will put the Mob out of business (no more government salaries).


27 posted on 06/22/2009 9:42:37 PM PDT by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote)
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To: dighton; martin_fierro; aculeus; Billthedrill; Constitution Day; Ezekiel; MozarkDawg; ...
... felony possession of counterfeit controlled substance with intent to sell within 1,000 feet of a convenience store ...

A "shirtless at the 7-Eleven ping" is in order for Iowahawk and Mr. Fierro.


28 posted on 06/22/2009 9:44:02 PM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Constitution Day; IowaHawk

Lifestyles of the rich and famous, which (to be fair) he’s earned.


29 posted on 06/22/2009 9:57:34 PM PDT by dighton
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To: thecodont

Seems ‘off’ when you read the charges.


30 posted on 06/22/2009 10:06:00 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: Constitution Day; IowaHawk; martin_fierro
Errrrrrrr, they’ve earned. Hawk left, Marty right, or vice versa?
31 posted on 06/22/2009 10:06:48 PM PDT by dighton
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To: JeepInMazar

Is bread dangerous? I know the government is cracking down on Cheerios.


32 posted on 06/22/2009 10:09:12 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: Rodebrecht
"Counterfeit controlled substance" That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. Damn drug war.

Sounds like the Consumer Protection Agency has inserted itself in the middle of the drug war. Making certain that the drugs you buy are real.

33 posted on 06/22/2009 10:18:59 PM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: dighton; IowaHawk; martin_fierro
I don't know about that dude on the left. I think that might be Iowahawk!

:)

34 posted on 06/22/2009 10:20:44 PM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: JeepInMazar

I absolutely hate it when I get bread instead of crack.


35 posted on 06/22/2009 10:39:22 PM PDT by Bullish ( Reality is the best cure for delusion.)
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To: Constitution Day; dighton; martin_fierro; Billthedrill; Ezekiel; MozarkDawg
He faces a felony possession of counterfeit controlled substance ...

No problem. Hire a phony lawyer and negotiate for a fake sentence in an imaginary prison.

36 posted on 06/23/2009 6:47:35 AM PDT by aculeus
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To: dighton; Constitution Day; IowaHawk
Photobucket

Puh-leez.

I'm the good-lookin' one.

37 posted on 06/23/2009 6:55:03 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro
I'm the good-lookin' one.

You're the one wearing the red suit with the pointy hat?

38 posted on 06/23/2009 6:59:15 AM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: aculeus

I like your solution!


39 posted on 06/23/2009 10:11:46 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Rodebrecht
"Counterfeit controlled substance" That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of."

Waay back in High School...our school decided that they were not only going to prohibit the consumption of alcohol on school premises and at school events, but also "look-alike alcohol"

A few friends and I decided we would push buttons and tempt fate by becoming look-alike alcoholics, and consumed every beverage during our senior year out of brown paper bags. We brought brown paper bags to the lunch room and would sip our cafeteria milk cartons out of a crinkled paper bag. It drove the administration nuts. These days we'd probably be arrested and/or put in foster homes.

40 posted on 06/23/2009 10:17:22 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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