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published December 21, 2002
Police say dad forced kids, 4 and 7, to puff marijuana
SARASOTA -- A man has been arrested on charges that he forced his children, ages 4 and 7, to smoke marijuana and took them with him to sell drugs.
Alfred L. Sanders, 26, was charged Wednesday with two counts of child abuse.
Police said the 7-year-old boy told his mother on Nov. 24 that his dad made him and his sister smoke something that made his head feel funny and made him hungry. Investigators believe the abuse occurred in early August when the children were in Sanders' care.
The boy said his dad keeps "green dust" in small plastic bags and that he often watched him sell it to people on the street.
Police said Sanders was out on bail from a drug arrest in August. He was being held in the Sarasota County jail on the new charges Friday in lieu of $20,000 bail.
The boy is now with his mother and his sister is in state custody.
Hue's a clue as police track paint sprayer thief
PANAMA CITY -- Police followed a 700-foot trail to the home of a burglary suspect.
After a commercial paint sprayer was reported stolen Wednesday from a trailer in a motel parking lot, police followed drops of ivory-colored paint to the yard of a nearby home. No one was there, but the $5,000 sprayer was recovered.
When they find William Anthony Harris, 44, they'll charge him with burglary and grand theft.
The sprayer was returned to Phil Knicely, a contractor from St. Augustine. "I was back at work before noon," said Knicely.
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