Body cam shows prolific federal drug prosecutor offering cops business card in DUI crash arrest

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Body-camera video obtained by The Associated Press shows one of the nation's most prolific federal drug prosecutors offering police his business card in an apparent attempt to leverage his position to blunt the fallout from a Fourth of July crash in which he is accused of striking another vehicle an

in March. The bulk of those cases were handled by Ruddy and his colleagues in Tampa, where PANEX is headquartered.

“Ruddy is at the heart of a costly and aggressive prosecutor-led dragnet that every year pulls hundreds of low-level cocaine traffickers off the oceans and incarcerates them in the U.S.

After two weeks aboard the U.S. Coast Guard vessel, Pereira made his initial court appearance in Tampa in March, charged under the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, whichanywhere on the high seas whenever it determines a vessel is “without nationality.” “He never even hit brakes,” a witness told police. “He just kept going and he was swerving all the way up the road. I’m like, ‘No, he’s going to hurt somebody.’ So I just followed him until I got the tag number and just called and reported it.”

 

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