Stuart woman charged in Port St. Lucie drug deal involving 160 oxycodone pills, police say
November 5th, 2009 by TCPalm.comPORT ST. LUCIE — A 36-year-old woman was arrested Wednesday after selling an informant nearly 160 oxycodone pills, according to an affidavit released Thursday.
Gina M. Sanchez, of the 100 block of Everglades Boulevard in Stuart, met the informant about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in the 200 block of Southwest Port St. Lucie Boulevard.
The informant, who met earlier with a police investigator, had been given $1,020 and had been followed to the scene by members of the police department’s Special Investigations Unit.
The informant got into Sanchez’s vehicle, and Sanchez exchanged 157 oxycodone pills for the money.
Police arrested Sanchez on a felony trafficking in oxycodone charge and took her to jail.
Will Greenlee, TCPalm.com
Tags: arrest, informant, oxycodone, trafficking, woman
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November 5th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Damn 157 good pills gone the police for there christmas party
November 5th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Wow, great job by out fine police department. That poor girl probably has a family to feed or a habit of her own. How is arresting her going to do anything about the drug problem in the area. Yeah, another kingpin off the street. Tell the police to try investigating and staking out some real criminals!!!!!!!
November 5th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Better yet the cops got 200 pills and kept 43 for their selves. Get the crap off the streets.
November 5th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Actually Jeep, she is a real criminal. Poor girl? We’re suppose to feel sorry for her, because she may have a family to feed all at the expense of fueling someone else’s addiction and causing another family sadness and grief? Good for the Cops! I’m so sick and tired of hearing people say crap like, “Well, he or she doesn’t use, but they have a family to support. B.S.!!!! They’re more guilty than someone who’s addicted. One more dealer off the street!! Now if PBC Sheriff’s could just get
J.G. off the streets.
November 5th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
according to the post, she could just come down to wpb, and go to a doctor, and get as much as they want, either way, how much time do you want to give her,
November 5th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Mr Funk, so glad you commented. Let me ask you, where do you think she got those pills. I think is from one of the hundreds or may be thousands of pain clinics here in South Florida. Taking someone to jail for a 100 pills or a thousand pills is a waste of time, as long as the law allows just about anybody to open a pain clinic. I bet your for locking people up over smoking weed too. Thats like setting up task forces to arrest street level drug dealers. If they put a stop to the large amounts of drugs coming into the area, the street level dealers would have no drugs to sell.
November 5th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
160 pills, do you think that anyone that was waiting to buy those pills from that lady is still waiting?? Hell no, they just made another phone call. Hit the source, because hitting nickle and dime dealers is not going to stop any addict from getting what they need.
November 5th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Last but not least, she is not fueling anybody’s addiction, at least I don’t think so. If she did, she is where she deserves to be. I think she was just taking advantage of a situation.
November 6th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Hey Jeep, It doesn’t take a Rocket Scientist to figure out where she got the pills and yeah, the doctors who are profitting off of the addict or the smaller dealers need to be knocked down, too. Don’t think you’re talking to someone who hasn’t dealt with this at all ends of the spectrum. I’ve dealt with the doctors, the dealers and the addicts. This hits very close to home. I’ve fought the past 20 years to try and save my family and I’m so greatful that my son finally found his way out of the Roxy’s and Bars, but I still deal with an ex husband who’s never been able to break his habit. Do you realize how many of our young people are dying everyday because of these drugs? Do you have a teenage son or daughter? And if you want to bring up the marijuana, I know what everyone says about it, but there is definitely some truth to it being a gateway drug. Not for all, but for some, yes. If you want to sit back a smoke your joint, I have no problem with that, but when you go out and start trafficking it, you better believe, I have a problem with it. I don’t believe the drug problem will ever go away, but if the cops just sat back and didn’t hit the small time dealers, it would be a lot worse off. Last but not least, I know that there are many doctors being investigated, but law enforcement better have the right evidence to pin them with or it’s just a waste of tax payers money and it’s not an easy charge to prove.
November 7th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Sorry for you problems Funk, I really feel for you. Its not that people that are selling drugs don’t need to be prosecuted, but if you are going to prosecute a drug dealer, make sure it does some good. That lady that got arrested is not going to put a stop to any problem, not even a dent. Society in a whole dosen’t want the drug problem to cease, especially the government. If they did, they wouldn’t make such a huge fuss about some drugs sting where they put up survellience and used who knows how much manpower to arrest a woman with 100 or so pills. They are sometimes 200 pills in one perscription. Grab the people who really do damage in our society. If the small time dealer can’t get their hands on drugs to sell, we would reduce the drug problem. Lord knows they don’t have money to buy any quantitity of any drug. Kill the supply and alot of people’s problems would disappear over time.
November 7th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
No charge is easy to prove, and you are correct, it would talke alot of taxpayer’s money. If they stopped bullcrapping around with irrevelant people, we would have alot more resources to go after the people who need to be shot, let alone put in jail. If you have a person in your neighborhood who is causing problems or having alot of UNWANTED traffic in your neighborhood, something needs to be done. All these retarted gangbangers with their guns, need to go. Yet alot of the people dont’t have parents, and are forced to let the streets raise them. No real opportunity for success has ever presented itself to some of the young people, and that is a true crime.
November 7th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Funk, i wish you and your family well. You seem like a great lady who has been through alot. Keep faith in God, and keep a positive outlook. Happy holidays to you.
November 9th, 2009 at 9:53 am
Thank you Jeep. I do agree with you that they need to go after the big dogs. You know my son was very lucky. He got into a lot of trouble with the law for stealing to support his habit and today, I have the son that I knew I had somewhere - he was just so sucked up into the drugs. I’m just so angry that his dealer is still out there and the PBC Sheriff’s office knows who he is and they know what he does. I kept getting promises that they were getting ready to arrest him, but now 1 year later and the f.f. is still out there. I know, I probably need to just let it be and what happens happens. I have my son back and he takes full responsibility for everything he’s done and is ready to make it right. That’s truly what counts. ( I still just want them to nail J.G. though). Ok I’ll stop Thank you again Jeep, it was good having that bit of a debate. Hope you have happy holidays, too.
December 7th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
The issue will be resolved but not this way, it has to be education not incarceration… there is no way locking people up will fix this, your bailing out the ocean with a teaspoon! People will learn by being taught that they can come off this with out suffering(suboxone) and instead of arresting them, a forced detox/testing to keep them off! people stop when they hit bottom, same as a gambler, you cannot make them stop. If you take the legal meds away heroine will plague this area then youll see a death toll rise from unregulated drugs… our resources to fight crime are being wasted on this when they could be locking away child molesters w/ sting operations but instead they have tv shows funding that because there money is being wasted chasing a drug war that cannot be won. the hard criminals are getting out early and repeating there crimes because jails are overcrowded with addicts, a mistake! if the efforts used to bust pill seekers went into real crime (robbery,rape,murder,corporate fraud(economic disasster) by doing stings the real issues making people drug addicts would go away, addicts are escaping issues they cannot face, and correcting this country would fix that and real crime is a huge part of it!!!
December 7th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
the counties could open small kiosks in shopping centers and charge a few dollars a day to talk people through then show them the proper way to detox and in 7 days the desire to use oxy is gone and the suboxone will keep oxy from working if they do take it, but the state would rather just put them in jail and hopr it works. The majority of people that use for pleasure would love to stop but the sickness keeps them using to “maintain” if they know its a painless detox and can be done cheap (70% would do it ) and that would put a huge dent in street sales, but no one looks at that picture, they think people are getting rich, in reality there supporting there habit and use with resales, and the real crime (robbery/burglary for oxy is not oxy users, they are sick and can’t do that when out of drugs and enjoying it when they have them, but the crackheads are the ones commiting these crimes because they know the value of the drug, a pill user like a heroine addict is too sick to do anything when he is out of meds (physical addiction) a crackhead is not going through that illness!!! A huge portion of the dr. shoppers are crack heads that do not use pills but know the street value of them, and the crack dealer finances the dr visits and keeps the supply, thats the issue that needs addressing!!!
December 7th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
A valid pain patient can see his dr. weekly for $40 and get 7days of meds (50+ pills) rather than the $160 monthly visit and 200+ pills!! there is no reason to do this monthly, if its weekly a dr can better know the patient and seperate the abusers (out of meds early) and the ones who sell there meds will be less tempted because they only get a weeks worth. Over time and tests a dr can go to bi weekly but no reason to do this monthly knowing the meds are getting diverted because the cost of the visit/scripts, drug testing weekly monthly/random would be mandatory and done by a third party at the patients expense! that will clean up the pain mgmt industry…
June 3rd, 2010 at 4:27 am
I believe it is quite important to detox a few times through out the year, not just for your insides but outsides as well. It is startling what a complete cleansing can do for the skin!