Hunter Biden is well-known for his former addiction to crack.
But the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse found more than 6.2 million Americans have used crack at least once in their lifetime.
But a Sheriff’s Office made one big mistake that had these 2,500 Florida crackheads jumping for joy.
Crack cocaine is a dangerous and highly addictive drug that is illegal in the United States without exception.
The substance first hit the United States market in the 1970s and became a major issue during the 1980s in what came to be known as the “crack epidemic.”
In 1986, then-Senator Joe Biden authored a law called the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 that set strict mandatory minimum penalties for possession of crack cocaine.
“We passed a lot of the leadership of Senator Thurmond and myself and others a law that says if you’re caught with that, you go to jail for five years, you get no probation, you get nothing other than five years in jail,” Biden said at the time.
But Joe Biden ate those words when his son Hunter grew addicted to crack cocaine.
During Hunter’s trial over possessing a firearm while using narcotics, his ex-girlfriend told a jury that he used crack “every 20 minutes or so” throughout the day.
And Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop from hell even contained videos of him smoking crack while hanging out with prostitutes.
Of course, Joe Biden recently pardoned Hunter for his firearm conviction and any other federal crimes that he may have committed over a decade time frame.
But Hunter Biden may not be the only crackhead to get his record expunged.
More than 2,500 Florida crackheads may see their records expunged due to a big mistake made by a police department.
“A Broward County, Florida prosecutor is taking steps to vacate over 2,500 convictions linked to a controversial drug sting operation that operated from the late 1980s to early 90s,” BET reported. “The move is an effort to address cases where individuals were charged for purchasing crack cocaine manufactured and sold by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office (BSO).”
In a statement, Broward County State Attorney Harold F. Pryor called it an overdue act of justice and said that “it is never too late to do the right thing.”
A 1993 ruling by the Florida State Supreme Court declared that it was unlawful for police to arrest people for buying drugs that law enforcement created in a lab.
“The law enforcement’s conduct here was so outrageous as to violate Florida’s due process clause,” the Court ruled.
But that is exactly what happened in Broward from 1988 to 1990.
“They were arresting people not for selling, but for purchasing,” defense lawyer Ed Hoeg, a public defender at the time, said in a statement.
A recent audit discovered that hundreds of these individuals still have the convictions on their records after three decades.
But that could soon change.
And more than 2,500 former crackheads will be jumping for joy over the clearing of their record.
DeSantis Daily will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.
