It’s common to see Treasure Coast teens and preteens using cell phones for sending text messages and photos.

But it’s also becoming common for teens nationwide to send other things via their phones or computer Web cameras, including explicit and sexual photographs that have given the phenomenon a new name — sexting.

“It’s been going on for several years here. We just didn’t call it this,” said Detective Brian Broughton of the Martin County Sheriff’s Office. “Now it has a little buzz word, but basically we’re referring to the same thing — when children would take nude pictures of themselves and send it to other children.”
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FORT PIERCE — Sitting in a living room filled with marijuana smoke, Alfred Foster Welling III had a problem: St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office investigators executing a search warrant at his home.

Welling’s encounter with the law enforcers in the 1900 block of South 34th Street ended Thursday with his arrest on felony charges including cultivation of marijuana, possession of marijuana with intent and possession of more than 20 grams of marijuana, according to recently obtained records.
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FORT PIERCE — After an officer pulled cocaine from Bobby L. Burgess’ pants pocket, the 44-year-old local man said he was wearing his son’s trousers.

But that revelation did not keep Burgess out of jail following a Monday morning police encounter.
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PORT ST. LUCIE — A 44-year-old man accused of hitting his wife Wednesday morning after she admitted being out with another woman with whom she’s having an affair is facing a battery charge, a police report states.

The 37-year-old victim told investigators she got home about 12:30 a.m. and went to take a shower when her husband, Alex Adorno, came to the bathroom.

Adorno, of the 1200 block of Southeast McFarlane Avenue, ”asked her if she had been out with the girl she has been having an affair with and she said yes,” the report states.

He allegedly got mad and choked her. He also allegedly turned the water off, hit her in the head and threw the bottles in the shower on her.

The victim said it’s the second time Adorno struck her. She said she didn’t call police the first time ”because she is the one having the affair,” the report states.

Adorno said his wife has been having an affair with another woman for about three months and he doesn’t know what to do. He said he ”lost it” after she returned home and admitted being out with her girlfriend.

The wife didn’t want to press charges, but Adorno went to jail on a battery charge.

By Will Greenlee, TCPalm.com