Crime Scene

Teen with droopy drawers gets shot

John Constantin (left) sure taught David Mitchell a sartorial lesson in Jacksonville over the weekend.

Constantin saw Mitchell, 18, walking around with his pants sagging below his underwear. The older man tried ordering the teen to pull up his knickers.

Mitchell refused, and the two men got into a scuffle. Constantin pulled out a gun and fired twice, shooting Mitchell in the stomach.

On the way to the police station, Constantin told officers "this is bullshit...I was just protecting myself." He's charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. And, oh yeah, the rock of crack that cops found in his pocket will also likely net him a drug charge.   

The Smoking Gun has more details from the arrest report.

God arrested in coke sting near church

A man named God (not to be confused with a magician named Gob) was arrested in Tampa over the weekend, charged with delivery of cocaine near a church and a school.

Cops had been investigating God Lucky Howard (left) since April, according to this ABC Action News report. Undercover detectives picked him up on Saturday and charged him with selling drugs.

After arresting this man who apparently is neither godly nor lucky, officers searched his home and found 22 grams of coke and a scale.

Granny said heroin was for Ft. Lauderdale man

I found the four-page federal charging document filed against Maria Resfa Garzon de Arenas, the 74-year-old who allegedly tried to bring 6.5 pounds of heroin through the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport last week.

Read the PDF here: Download garzon.pdf

As you can see in the complaint, signed by Special Agent Jorge Gomez of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Garzon said she knowingly smuggled the heroin from Bogota, Colombia. She intended to deliver it to a man in Fort Lauderdale for $23,000 (investigators had estimated the heroin's street value at $180,000).

Prosecutors are asking that she be held without bond. Garzon's public defender will argue against that Wednesday in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, where she's scheduled for a 10 a.m. hearing in front of Magistrate Judge Barry Seltzer.

Smugglin' granny caught with dope

Who knows what else was in her bags - gifts for grandkids, maybe some knitting materials? - but it was the 6.5 pounds of heroin hidden in Maria Resfa Garzon de Arenas' belongings that caused some red flags at the Fort Lauderdale airport yesterday.

Drug smuggling ain't news in South Florida, but here's what's interesting: Garzon de Arenas is 74 years old. Not exactly the profile you think of a smack smuggler.

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami announced that Garzon de Arenas was arrested after a Bogota-to-Fort Lauderdale flight that landed at 3 p.m. June 12. She went through the customs process, and agents found heroin "sewn within the lining of notebook binders, a jewelry case, and in a false cavity of women's slippers."

She'll have a hearing June 18 in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry Seltzer. If the case goes to trial and she's convicted, Garzon de Arenas faces life in prison.

Before we get out our jump-to-conclusions mat, though, let's remember the drug-smuggling world is a dangerous, unforgiving one. Time will tell what other factors may have been at play here, including maybe someone forcing Garzon de Arenas to carry the drugs. Maria Full of Grace, anyone?

Irony defined

The stories about pot smokers in Texas just keep piling up.

This one's, like, the definition of irony.

Cornelia Mayo (left) was at the courthouse this week because she was a potential juror in a marijuana-possession trial. During a break in jury selection, Mayo went outside the courthouse and SMOKED A JOINT. She was arrested.

Good thing she knows her way around the courthouse -- she'll be back there next week, as a defendant.

More details at the Houston Chronicle.

Getting stoned out of their skull

Never thought the day would come that we credit Perez Hilton for breaking a crime scoop, but here we are.

Two Texas men and a juvie are accused of digging up a corpse, decapitating it and using the head as a pot-smoking device.

There are no good quotes from this short story, so we'll leave it to our editor for the final word on this dead-head bong:

"That shouldn't be allowed."

2-year-old learns to smoke pot

Krystle Weber probably should have skipped this lesson: letting friends teach her 2-year-old son how to smoke pot.

A cell phone video caught Weber sitting in a room as her friends showed the boy how to smoke a joint.

"I swear to God, I better not get in trouble for all this," Weber, of Wisconsin, said in the video.

The video captured the incident 7 months ago, and Weber and two of her friends have since pleaded guilty in the case.

A test after the incident did not find marijuana in the boy's system.

Weber's also taking parenting classes -- has her son back.
Watch the newly released video at NBC 6.

Drug deal gone wrong

A Boca teen apparently thought he'd make a quick buck selling pot.

Instead Scott Leshner got robbed -- and then arrested.

Leshner called police to tell them three gun-toting men had ordered him and his friends to the ground, forced them to take off their pants and pistol whipped his friends.

The robbers stole $2,000, a laptop and marijuana.

Then Leshner called police and gave them permission to search his apartment.

That's when police found a stash of marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms and arrested Leshner for drug possession.

The Palm Beach Post has the story.

Man sells seniors crouton crack

First we had people smoking green crack on St. Patty's Day.

Now, Jacksonville cops have busted a man for selling fake crack to -- wait for it -- old people.

The Smoking Gun reports 22-year-old Hillman Arnold was arrested at the Golden Retreat Center, a senior-citizen community. He had been selling them "rocks" of stale bread for $5 a pop, trying to pass it off as crack.

Cops say Arnold had been peddling his yeasty wares at the senior center for two months to pay for his marijuana addiction.

Smoking green crack for St. Pat

Nothing says "Top o' the morning!" like a hit of crack.

Cops in Ohio seized several baggies of green-colored rock cocaine last week (left), an apparent nod to St. Patrick's Day.

The Smoking Gun has the rest of the emerald scoop.

Doc, is that a painkiller in your pocket?

Yes, AND he's happy to see you.

Jacksonville doctor Benjamin S. Malang (left) allegedly found a way to pump up his acupuncture business: He wrote free painkiller prescriptions for patients who had sex with him.

Police launched an investigation earlier this month after a patient told cops Malang, who is 70 (!!!), had been giving her Hydrocodone and Oxycontin scripts in exchange for sex at his home and office for the past two years. Undercover cops set up similar arrangements with Malang and arrested him, the Florida Times-Union reported.

Malang, who has been licensed to practice in Florida since 1984, once served as senior physician for a North Florida jail. His medical training is listed as "Far Easteren (sic) medical school" on a police report, which The Smoking Gun posted.