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Possible Vehicle Trade For Crack Cocaine, Dispute Leads To Arrest
November 17, 2014
A dispute over a vehicle that may have been traded for crack cocaine has landed a Century man behind bars.
Jermain Lavelle Smith, 28, was charged with battery and booked into the Escambia County Jail. He remained behind bars Monday morning with bond set at $50,000.
The female victim told deputies that she confronted Smith over allegedly stealing her husbands vehicle and abandoning it with a blown engine in Canoe, AL, where law enforcement had it towed away. She said the confrontation escalated until Smith punched her in the face and in the throat. She refused medical treatment.
The incident was witnessed by about a half dozen people at the Carver Community Center, but all of the witnesses wished to remain anonymous, according to an arrest report.
The victim’s husband told deputies that he had tried to report the vehicle stolen with Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office but had difficulties in doing so. According to an Escambia County Sheriff’s Office report, Smith may have had possession of the vehicle after a possible crack cocaine trade.
The husband also told deputies that he intervened after his wife was attacked and threatened to cut Smith with a box cutter. Smith allegedly left the area while threatening to shoot the man and wife.
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9 Responses to “Possible Vehicle Trade For Crack Cocaine, Dispute Leads To Arrest”
You must not know the area lol,, @just saying
Sh¡t is out of hand in century, drug city.
I say shoot our local crack dealers and get our city back.
Generally, you’ll encounter “difficulties” reporting your car stolen when you let it slip to the police that you loaned it out in exchange for narcotics.
The cops won’t take a stolen vehicle report in that case, because it wasn’t stolen.
He was working on his GED and wanted to be an entreprenuer!
@ Snoozzi
So it sounds like things have an opportunity to exceed the number of crimes in the current half of 2014?
Curious as to how there was a problem in reporting a stolen vehicle.
Yup, crime rate is down….stay tuned.
How do you have “difficulties” reporting your car stolen? If it was my car I would keep trying until it was reported.
If people would read CAREFULLY the stats report you will find they are for January thru June! According to the calendar, November is not included in the first 6 months
I’m SO glad to see our tax dollars hard at work. Keep tolerating the same behavior keep getting the same results.
Just last week a man went to the comunity center to fetch a gun to shoot somebody. This does not seem like a good place to hang out.
But remember , the overall crime rate is down…