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A seven-month undercover investigation has led to the arrest of 21 people involved in illegal sales of narcotics at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Riviera Beach.
Those taken into custody include veterans, medical center employees and associates, said Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office Capt. Eric Coleman.

The joint investigation by the VA Office of Inspector General and the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office was launched after the inspector general's office contacted the sheriff's office over concerns about the "diversion" of pharmaceutical drugs, Coleman said. Sheriff's office undercover officers were able to buy narcotics from the 21 in custody, he said.
In all, 6,000 oxycodone pills were seized along with more than $200,000 in cash.
In some cases, veterans were selling drugs to make money. The source of some of the drugs remains under investigation.

A surveillance video at a City Heights McDonald’s shows the poignant encounter between a San Diego police officer and local boy minutes before the officer was shot and killed by a suicidal gunman.

The Aug. 6 tape, which police released Tuesday, shows Officer Jeremy Henwood walking up to the counter at 5:24 p.m. He appears to take awhile deciding what to order. Moments later, a boy sidles up to the counter beside him and appears to look at his police belt full of equipment. The boy smiles as he and the officer exchange words. Henwood buys the boy cookies along with a meal for himself, all the while talking to the boy.

(CNN) -- Prosecutors in the Casey Anthony murder trial said Tuesday they are looking into information regarding a woman who at one point was incarcerated with Anthony, and whose child died in a way similar to the way Anthony's defense says her 2-year-old daughter Caylee died.

Man jailed in Gastonia, N.C. on charges of larceny after robbing a Bank for $1 so he could get health care in prison. Richard James Verone handed a female teller a note demanding the money and claiming that he had a gun, according to the police report.  Then waited for police to arrive on the sofa!

 

(CNN) -- Someone conducted keyword searches on "chloroform" using a desktop computer located in the home Casey Anthony shared with her parents, a computer examiner testified Wednesday in Anthony's capital murder trial.  The searches were found in the "deleted" or "unallocated space" portion of the computer's hard drive, Detective Sandra Osborne of the Orange County Sheriff's Office testified, meaning they had been deleted.  However, she told jurors, deleted material remains on a computer's hard drive and can be retrieved until it is overwritten by new data. It had not been overwritten on the Anthonys' computer, she said, and "a complete Internet history" was obtained. Osborne said she turned the data over to her sergeant, who is an expert at analyzing such material.

A criminal record may sometimes prove to be a wall between the person and the opportunities which can lead to a better future. If you have a criminal history, you may have the privilege to get it sealed and/or expunged. Sealing and/or expunging a record is the process of removing the criminal arrest record pertaining to you from review by the public. However, a "sealed" record may not completely disappear and may still be reviewed under very limited circumstances; in most instances it requires a Court order to unseal records. An expungement cannot be viewed, even under a Court's order.  An expungement acts like a "legal eraser", and all files related to that single arrest are ordered destroyed.  Florida Department of Law Enforcement provides a service through which certain criminal records can be sealed or expunged. To qualify for sealment, a person must not have had any prior criminal record sealed, and may only seal an arrest record that did not result in a criminal conviction, including a "withhold of adjudication".  Contact Cory Strolla P.A. to find out if your are eligible under Florida Law for this relief.