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Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office discovers cocaine field-testing kits faulty, creating false positives
WJAX via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has said that the department discovered field-testing kits for...
Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office finds cocaine testing kits unreliable, ends use
The Florida Times-Union via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office will no longer use cocaine field testing kits after learning they...
Study Estimates Roadside Drug Tests Result in 30,000 Wrongful Arrests Every Year
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 5 months agoPhoto: Julian Dufort Roughly 30,000 people every year may be getting wrongfully arrested and jailed...
Port St. Lucie man facing 23 drug charges sentenced to prison, fined $50,000
TCPalm | Treasure Coast Newspapers via Yahoo News· 11 months agoPORT ST. LUCIE − A 26-year-old man was sentenced to three years in prison and fined $50,000 in...
High times: How Texas stumbled into a legal cannabis market and what it could mean for pot
Fort Worth Star-Telegram via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWalk into a gas station or smoke shop and you’ll see them on the shelf, packaged in colorful boxes...
Pushing fentanyl fear, Pinellas sheriff gets thousands for drug tests
Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri asked the county on Tuesday to invest hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars in contactless technology to field-test suspected drugs. To him, the promise ...
From a one-man effort in 1947, SLED’s crime scientists have a new, modern $62 million lab
The State via Yahoo News· 4 months agoIt took SLED Chief Mark Keel years to get $54 million for the agency’s new ultra modern crime lab,...
Jasper County obtains TruNarc analyzer to more easily identify controlled substances
Newton Daily News, Iowa via Yahoo News· 4 months agoFeb. 1—Identifying controlled substances is becoming more challenging due to the advancements of synthetic drugs and the traffickers who disguise them, but the Jasper County Sheriff's Office ...
Outside ‘boundaries of the law’: On video, Idaho Harm staff discuss drug-item giveaways
Idaho Statesman McClatchy via AOL· 3 months ago“We are very, very careful for every order that we send out. ... We let people know ... that this is...
Texas High Schoolers Are Being Jailed on Felony Charges For Vaping
The 74 via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSPRING BRANCH — When kids walk into the gas station near the high school in this rural stretch north...