Nate Allen is a native son of Fort Myers, having risen from relative football obscurity in high school in Cape Coral and college at South Florida to a long NFL career. The hard-hitting safety now plies his trade with the Oakland Raiders, though he is now teaching the...
Month: October 2016
Did FBI agents break the law in pursuit of child porn suspects?
Many readers of our Fort Myers criminal law blog understand that enforcing the law requires authorities to perform a balancing act. Officials are sworn to uphold the law and do what they can to stop violations, but they must at all times reassure citizens that they...
Civil rights groups: End drug crimes
They are in many ways the voices of America's conscience: the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch. The two civil rights groups recently issued a joint report that makes a powerful case against drug crimes.The enforcement of drug laws is ruining...
Why giving alcohol to a minor is a terrible idea
College is the time in a young person's life where they experience true freedom for the first time. For some, this means living on one's own and learning to manage finances. For others, this means taking advantage of previously inaccessible opportunities, such as...
No joke: 12-year-old boy arrested for clown threats
A Fort Myers TV station reports that a 12-year-old Florida boy who lives north of here has been arrested for making "clown threats." He is charged with the second-degree felony of terroristic threatening, WBBH-TV reports.Law enforcement officials said the threat was...
Fort Myers drug arrest begins on the road
A recent arrest began as so many do: with a traffic stop. According to a news report by CBS affiliate WINK TV, detectives assigned to Lee County Sheriff's Office Highway Interdiction Unit pulled two vehicles over for traffic infractions yesterday.The Ford F350 and...