Blog Posts in May, 2011
Posted on May 31, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
Jhovony Chacon was arrested in Titus County for Possession of Marijuana over 50 pounds to 200 pounds. A Texas DPS Trooper stopped Chacon's 1999 Ford Expedition near Mount Pleasant, Texas for a simple ...
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Posted on May 30, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
An officer for the Nashville Metro Police Department and his wife have been indicted on prescription drug fraud charges. His wife is charged with 16 counts of fraudulently obtaining hydrocodone. The ...
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Posted on May 23, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
The Supreme Court of the United States recently released an opinion addressing the issue of exigent circumstances and the use of said circumstances to establish probable cause to conduct a warrantless ...
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Posted on May 19, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
McLaren Wenzell, 23, was arrested on March 1 after a police search revealed four pounds of marijuana . As of right now, there is a scandal in San Francisco where the testimony of police officers (or ...
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Posted on May 18, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
A registered nurse in Seattle, Washington has been arrested for "diverting" drugs approximately one-hundred times before being caught. Gordon McSherry, 46, is accused of taking fentanyl (to treat ...
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Posted on May 17, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
The Drug Enforcement Agency has arrested a Midland man on charges that he gave a man some oxycodone. After the man took the drug, the man blacked out and stopped breathing. His family then found his ...
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Posted on May 16, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Alvin Keith McCants was arrested for possession of cocaine in Florida. Since 2002, McCants has been arrested 11 times for possession of drugs or drug ...
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Posted on May 13, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
Mack Herron, formerly of the New England Patriots (1973-1974) was arrested in Chicago for possession of controlled substance . He was arrested after police allegedly saw him drop a tin-foil packet ...
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Posted on May 12, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
The jockey Michael Baze , 24, a jockey who won 918 races out of almost 7,000 starts/mounts was found dead in his car at Churchill Downs. Baze had been arrested for DWI in 2009. Baze was also scheduled ...
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Posted on May 11, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
Joe Frank Garza, former Jim Wells County District Attorney, will be forced to spend 180 days in the Jim Wells County Jail. This will be apart of his condition of ten-year probation sentence. The court ...
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Posted on May 10, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
William Silva, 27, was convicted by a Williamson County jury to life in prison for possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver or distribute . Silva was arrested after he was pulled ...
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Posted on May 9, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
Gossip girl star, Chace Crawford, and future brother-in-law to Tony Romo, has entered a pre-trial diversion program to avoid a marijuana conviction. Crawford was busted last summer outside of Plano 's ...
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Posted on May 2, 2011 By Plano Drug Attorney
Warden Lamar Palmer, 56, was a nurse and prescribed Ambien to a co-worker or called in the prescription to the pharmacy himself. He would then obtain the drugs from his colleague to use himself. ...
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