North Florida mayor faces drug charges, sheriff says ‘this isn’t Toronto’
Posted Nov 26, 2013 10:06:19 PM.
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HAMPTON, Fla. – A north Florida sheriff has filed drug charges against a local mayor, saying Bradford County “isn’t Toronto.”
Hampton Mayor Barry Layne Moore was arrested Monday afternoon in Polk County on a Bradford County warrant.
Bradford County Sheriff Gordon Smith appeared to draw a comparison between Moore and Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who has admitted to smoking crack cocaine while he was in a drunken stupor.
Authorities say Moore faces charges of possessing and selling Oxycodone.
Smith said in a prepared statement: “We will not tolerate illegal drug activity in my jurisdiction by anyone to include our elected officials.”
The Florida Times-Union (http://goo.gl/cAO4QM ) reports that Moore was being held on $45,000 bail. It wasn’t clear if he had an attorney.
Ford has not been charged with an offence.
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Information from: The (Jacksonville) Florida Times-Union, http://www.jacksonville.com