Edward La Troy, a 34-year-old resident of Miami, had been ticketed for speeding less than three hours earlier by a Florida Highway Patrol trooper when the Flagler County Sheriff’s Carmine Celico stopped him and summoned a K9 that sniffed out the drugs.
Cops/Courts
Warned Of Animal Filth Months Ago, a Mondex Woman Is Jailed on Child Neglect Charges
The house where four young children lived was strewn with dog waste and infested with roaches. Deputies had first investigated the scene in late July.
Christmas Shopping With a Cop: Children and Deputies on Target Thursday
Thanks to generous donations, some 40 Flagler County children will be holiday shopping with Sheriff’s deputies the evening of Dec, 15 at the Target store on State Road 100, where children will be arriving with cop cars blaring sirens and whirling their lights.
Supreme Court’s Ruling on Immigrants Will Redefine Policing and State Powers
The Supreme Court’s ruling on Arizona’s law is due by the end of June, at the same time as its ruling on Obama’s health care reform law, making this court term one of the most consequential in years, and with big reverberations in Florida.
Another Road Fatality as Hurt Motorcyclist Flagging Help on CR302 Is Struck and Killed
Gary Skelton, 67, of Bunnell, a motorcyclist, is the seventh road fatality in four weeks in Flagler. This wreck appears to have been the result of a tragic set of circumstances in the pitch darkness of County Road 302 on a rainy night.
Two Men Caught in Bunnell After Smashing Their Speeding Car and Fleeing Cops
Two men driving east at a recklessly dangerous speed on SR100 this morning smashed their car then triggered a foot and air chase before being caught by Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies.
Cop Escapee Michael Testa Turns Himself In
Michael Testa, 21, who escaped from a cop car where he’d been held after being stopped on suspicions of dealing in stolen property, had just finished writing a statement and was complaining that his bond amount would keep him in jail forever.
A Suicide in Walmart’s Parking Lot; Victim, 28, Was Connected to Tuesday’s Cop Escapee
Mike Saunders, 28, was found dead in his car in the Walmart parking lot Wednesday, of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning. He had been at the wheel of the same car, with Mochael Testa, when Testa was arrested near Marvin’s Gardens the day before–and escaped from a cop car.
Flagler County Jury Finds Quritus Lowe Guilty of Murdering Retired School Teacher
Myrtle McKinney, a 58-year-old retired schoolteacher, was found bludgeoned to death, gagged and blindfolded on Christmas Day 2007. Quritus Lowe II, one of four people charged in the murder, was convicted of first-degree murder in Flagler Monday, where the trial was moved because of publicity in Palatka. He may face the death penalty.
Domestic Fight Over a Truck in P Section Turns Into a 4-Hour Ordeal of Violence, and a Jailing
Richard Lorusso, 44, of Pine Crest Lane in Palm Coast, is accused of torturing his wife for four hours–beating her, cutting her, spitting on her and keeping her prisoner–before he fled the scene and turned himself in to authorities two hours later.