Tampa Bay Criminal Defense Lawyer - drug bust

By Nicholas Dorsten, Esq.

Another day, another drug bust in Pinellas County (see here , this one involving a mother (courtesy of the St. Pete Times website)

LARGO — A woman who brought a child to a drug deal and two others who claimed they had been robbed during the transaction were arrested this week, authorities said.

The mother, 22, of Seminole, was arrested Monday and charged with child abuse and violation of probation on charges of grand theft and possession of a controlled substance.

Another woman, 47, and a man, 45, both of St. Petersburg, Florida were each charged Tuesday with filing a false police report.

Largo police said the mother — along with her boyfriend and another person, who were not identified by name — went to Largo Mall on Jan. 20 to buy oxycodone from a man and woman from St. Petersburg. The mother also had the child with her, reports show. Police did not disclose if the child was related to her.

According to the reports, her boyfriend took 190 pills from the two other people, but did not pay for them.

The man, who also goes by the last name Cameron, and woman hatched a plan to report they had been robbed, Largo police said. The two conspired at a friend's house for about an hour and a half after the incident to determine how to falsify a police report to obtain and replace their prescription pills, the reports state. Largo detectives became suspicious when they learned the two had waited to report the robbery. "When they went back and interviewed the two victims, their stories had changed slightly," said a Largo police spokesman.

When detectives interviewed the mother, she "partially admitted to what happened," the spokesman said. "During that whole followup, the detectives found out that no robbery occurred." The mother was being held without bail in the Pinellas County jail on the probation violation charges.

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