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Century Woman Arrested For Violating Cocaine Conviction Probation
October 28, 2009
A Century woman was arrested Tuesday morning for violating her probation on a 2008 cocaine possession charge.
Linda Jean Harris, 49, of Ivey Street, Century, was arrested at her residence by Escambia County deputies. She is being held without bond in the Escambia County Jail on a violation of probation charge.
Harris was arrested in February, 2008, and charged with possession of cocaine and resisting arrest without violence. She was found guilty on May 21, 2008, and was sentenced to 18 months probation on the possession of cocaine charge and a concurrent one year probation on the resisting arrest charge.
A warrant for her arrest for violating her probation was issued October 19, 2009.
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13 Responses to “Century Woman Arrested For Violating Cocaine Conviction Probation”
I say close that Hilton Hotel will call the jail and put the criminals in chicken coups like the did in the 40’s & 50’s. Make them do hard labor 6 days a week and I bet you most will not want to come back. Our jails today caters to much to the criminals, it is like a Hilton hotel. There cloths are washed for them, there meals are cooked for them, there medical is free to them all they got to do all day is watch TV all day and yes it is cable(The law says we must provide cable TV for them) or worst play games all day. It sound like a life most of us would enjoy with the eception of not being able to come and go when we want. But we have to work a real job so we can pay taxes to support the very sames criminals that rob and steal from us. When will the politicans we the tax payers are paying big money for figure out that their plan is not working and try something else. The old saying was if you can’t do the time don’t do the crime but today its just probation. We make life to easy for the criminal. I say: if we keep doing the same thing everyday the we will get the same results. Its time for a change from the President on down to the County Commissioners. We need to bring common sense back to our country and government and start doing what we all know needs to be done and start making this country the greastest country in the world again instead of just the worlds ARMY. And the rest of the world is just laughing at us as we cruble down to nothing. We are laughing stock of the world
Run them college boy’s out of office and put common sense back in control
Still say, did you read the other article on this site about the drunk woman who hit and killed the bicyclist? Buying and consuming alcohol is legal (of age), but it is still the catalyst for millions of deaths. I dare say that this woman was probably educated about the dangers or drinking and driving, yet made a conscious decision to do so, anyway. I fear legalizing drugs would have the same result. Look at all the prescription addicts. Addiction is the problem with any drug. How would your society prevent that?
REGARDING:
“So what is your point?”
My point is that making it legal to mainline muriatic acid does not result in anyone stupid enough to do so.
Making drug use legal would not automatically make people do so. You need someone to talk you into it and that is where drug pushers come in. They come in because they can make money off of your death by using their drugs.
If they could not make money, they wouldn’t hook others on drugs to pay for their own drug use or just for the money because there would be no money to be made from the action..
Prohibition is the biggest problem. Spending 30 billion dollars per year incarcerating people instead of educating them is the biggest problem. I too have studied prohibition in the U.S. and other countries similar to America. You tried to connect Singapore’s success in lowering the crime rate by imposing harsher sentences on those who violated the drug laws, but the reality is that drug use remains high in Singapore even with the strict laws.
The Netherlands for example has taken the decriminalization approach. They have spent money on education instead of incarceration and are reaping the rewards of fewer addicts and a lower crime rate. There drug use rates are far lower than here in the United States in almost all peer groups, especially in the school aged children’s group.
This is why I believe education works and prohibition does not.
DHG,
Muriatic acid is used in the production of gelatin and other food additives, so anyone (most of us) who has eaten Jello or jelly has technically put muriatic acid in their veins already. It is also used in drinking water and pool water stabilization, so anyone who has swallowed water, has swallowed muriatic acid. So what is your point?
REGARDING:
“Think with a little intilect before you say that the only way to stop the problem is legalizing it.
And……….who is the bigger problem, the user or the dealer. The dealer is not to blame for the user’s problems.”
Intilect? If you consider him a dealer, he just sells what others demand. If you consider him a pusher, he pushes sales by giving out free addictive samples. Dealers may take over after the initial push creates demand but there has to be someone to convince him or her to take the first hit.
No user starts out life as a user unless you consider the children of addicts and they didn’t decide to do it. Somebody pushed it into them, in this case their loving mothers. They loved their drugs more than their children.
It is possible to make something available without saying it is good for you. In fact, I am amazed by the drugs they push on TV which include the warning MAY CAUSE BLINDNESS, LIVER FAILURE OR DEATH. PLEASE STOP TAKING IF ANY OF THESE OCCUR AND CALL YOUR DOCTOR OR MORTICIAN. and such warnings. Nobody in his right mind would take such things unless they considered the alternative worse.
It is possible to sell drugs without allowing advertising, consider tobacco. Yes, they still advertise it but far less and it would be possible to limit advertising to WE SELL DEADLY DRUGS HERE INCLUDING: and then whatever is in demand. As the users died, nobody would be pushing others to replace them and the usage should peter out. Yes it would leave orphans just as it does now and has for centuries.
The question is would it leave more or fewer orphans than the current system does.
By the way, muriatic acid is legal, do you feel the desire to put it in your veins?
With all the drug bust in Century why are these people still doing this? Are they not afraid of going to jail? Don’t they know that the cops are watching them. How much time do you get for the secound time around? This may stop if the judges would start giving time the first bust. I would like the prisoners back out working on the road crews and this includes women also. If they had to do something besides wait for their 3 meals to be brought to them or waiting for the next soap to come on it might would make a difference I know of 1 prisoner that was out one week applied for food stamps had them in less than one week. He had no children. Thats right Uncle Sam is going to take care of them. I know of people with children that have had to wait for 2 months to get food stamps with a small baby and young daughter. The prisoners should have to pay back some of the money for the free room and board.
Prohibition does not work,
You do need to look at the statistics and read my blog on the last drug story posted. You are speaking with ignorace and obviously not studied the result of legalizing drugs in other countries. Tell me this…..if we legalize drugs, the number of addicts will definately increase because many will presume cocaine, meth, heroin, etc. to be safe and try it. When they become addicts, what do we do with them. Most will have children…what do we do with the kids. Because we said it is ok to use drugs do we then have to put them in rehab, feed and raise their children, pay their bills and everything else? Think with a little intilect before you say that the only way to stop the problem is legalizing it.
And……….who is the bigger problem, the user or the dealer. The dealer is not to blame for the user’s problems.
Molino Mom,
Keep drinking the kool aid. Your streets are no more drug free today than they were 10 years ago and they won’t be anymore drug free ten years from now. Look at the statistics. The war on drugs has failed, just like the prohibiton of alcohol failed nearly a century ago.
If you want to put drug dealers out of business, you need to take the profit out of drug dealing. Otherwise we are just wasting time, money and resources that could be used elsewhere to fight real crime. But keep drinking the kool aid uncle sam feeds you and drug dealers will continue to do what they have always done.
Probation is the result of prison over crowding. People get 2nd, 3rd,4th,5th and 6th chances in the name of probation rather than just putting them in prison and letting them pay their debt to us for pissing on thier country. You are right, it is a waste of money…….Oh yeah and it is about as successful as us paying for them to go to rehab.
It seems like we see more people arrested for violating probation than we do for committing real crimes. If this woman was put on an 18 month probation in May 2008, then she only would have 1 month to go. I wonder what the point is. It seems like they ought to have something better to do with our tax money.
Its really easy to complete probation if you do what you are supposed to do. Pay your court money and report once a month to your probation officer. How hard is that?
In Escambia County, it is nearly impossible to complete a probation successfully.
Now we get to feed, clothe and house her for an indeterminate period of time while the Sisyphean wheels of justice grind her into dust.
Spank here and send her home. We have enough people in prison.
And another one down! They are bustin all these! Christmas in jail baby!