Articles Posted in Drug Crimes in Jacksonville

Twenty-five kilograms of cocaine police say came from South America washed up on shore in St. Johns County this month. The individually wrapped kilograms were likely headed for a destination along the East Coast, where buyers would have processed it, broken it up into smaller amounts and sold it, according to a report in the…

A Clay County elementary school teacher was arrested last week and charged with a felony after cocaine and a short straw presumably used to snort the powder drug were allegedly found in her purse in her fifth-grade classroom. Ashlea Eucker was in a meeting and told a school counselor how to get into her desk…

Two St. Johns County residents were arrested last week, accused of making methamphetamine in a local hotel. Police arrived at the hotel around 5 a.m. after hearing several reports of suspicious activity, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. When Eric Messler, one of the people staying in the room, opened the door, police…

After three days of deliberations, a federal jury found three doctors and an investor not guilty of a slew of charges related to their roles in Jacksonville pain clinics. The three doctors were charged with conspiracy to manufacture and distribute controlled substances, along with money laundering charges, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union.…

Several inmates at the Clay County Jail who had earned privileges to work during their sentence are now looking at more time behind bars after police cracked a smuggling ring in recent months. Girlfriends of the inmates would allegedly leave drugs, cigarettes and batteries in bathrooms of the places these men worked, including the county…

A Jacksonville teacher had some unfortunate timing when he went to an alleged Clay County drug house and police happened to be serving a warrant there. Police were already working there when James Van Richburg arrived and had marijuana, pills, drug paraphernalia and a handgun in his backpack, according to a report in the Florida…

St. Johns County police arrested a Panhandle man and Tennessee woman this week after a separate investigation led them to the couple allegedly making methamphetamines in a hotel room of an upscale resort. A security guard went to the room at the Sawgrass Marriott about 2 a.m. because the credit card the couple used to…

Clay County detectives were in round-up mode last week, arresting more than three dozen people after targeting 48 for arrests on various drug crimes. Charges are as minor as misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia, but most of the counts involve some sort of sale of a controlled substance or crack cocaine, according to a report…

A Jacksonville man and woman were arrested last week on heroin trafficking charges, part of a case state and federal agents have been investigating since July. Hortencia Leyva Melendrez and Francisco Enrique Gonzalez were both arrested on Jacksonville Drug Charges and charged with conspiracy to traffic in heroin, according to a report in the Florida…

A receptionist and office manager for a Jacksonville foot doctor are accused of running a massive prescription drug ring and a sixth woman was arrested last week in connection with the scheme. Kathleen Smith was arrested last week on Duval County drug trafficking charges after admitting she filled her name and her two sons’ names…