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What I Saw On My Vacation: "DRUG CHECK AHEAD."

By Brian Tannebaum, Esq.

I consider myself someone pretty up on the news, and so it came as a shock to me when I was driving on Florida's Alligator Alley (I-75 connecting the east and west coast of Florida) to see an electronic sign flashing "DRUG CHECK AHEAD.""DRUG CHECK AHEAD."Never seen that before.My first thought was that it was a sign that was being used at some pharmaceutical conference or health care festival and was now pulled over for some maintenance issue.Then I saw it. Two cars, well a station wagon with big silver rims and a van, pulled over by two Broward Sheriff's Officers, and then a few hundred feet later, two more vans pulled over.I assumed this was the DRUG CHECK, AHEAD.Now I am aware of DUI roadblocks. They are advertised, regulations are printed requiring that "every 4th car,"or something like that be stopped, but this was all new to me...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Defense on April 06, 2009 (boomark / email).