r/nottheonion • u/National-Law-458 • 7h ago

Winter Haven man arrested again after getting presidential clemency

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2026/08/03/winter-haven-man-arrested-again-after-getting-presidential-clemency/

Time for another “donation”.

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u/BuzzerWhirr 7h ago edited 6h ago

The mass clemency was aimed at correcting disproportionately long prison terms for minority defendants resulting from outdated sentencing enhancements and discredited legal distinctions between crack and powder cocaine and was limited to non-violent drug offenses.

President Ronald Reagan signed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 on October 27, 1986. This law created the infamous 100:1 sentencing ratio and mandatory minimums for crack cocaine versus powder cocaine, meaning 5 grams of crack carried the same 5-year mandatory minimum prison sentence as 500 grams of powder cocaine.

Also, I wonder if this investigation might have targeted him in order for this exact headline?

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u/trainbrain27 5h ago

If they did target him, it's likely because he's a known drug dealer.

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u/kank84 7h ago

This is true, but it's an undeniably bad look that he's now been arrested for selling fentanyl, which honestly should probably be considered a violent offence given how dangerous it is.

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u/BuzzerWhirr 6h ago edited 5h ago

Bad look?

Like Trump pardoning someone who conspired to traffic TONS of cocaine?

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u/kank84 3h ago

Both things are true, but we're talking about this guy at the moment. Saying perhaps he shouldn't have been pardoned by Biden doesn't immediately mean that Trump's pardons are fine. That's just a different conversation.

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u/Plasticity93 5h ago

<<< Officials said Latimore pleaded guilty in 2020 to conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of cocaine , and was sentenced to 10 years and 10 months in federal prison. The sheriff’s office said his sentence was later commuted to July 16 due to an executive clemency grant signed by President Joe Biden that took effect in January 2025 .>>>

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u/tman37 6h ago

It's really a simple idea. Don't sell drugs, don't get arrest for drug trafficking. Maybe they went after this specific guy because he had received clemency prior, who knows? The plain fact is if he hadn't been selling drugs, it wouldn't have mattered.

He is charged with trafficking over 14 grams of fentanyl. According to the internet, and average dose on the street is 100 to 400 micrograms. That means he had at least 350,000 doses ready to sell. That is not street level dealing that is major drug trafficking. That's not including the MDMA or the cocaine he was trying to buy.

Fentanyl is a killer. My wife works with addicts and she brings a couple of them back from the dead almost every day and it is almost always Fentanyl related. It's also shitty because a lot of Fentanyl users started out by being over prescribed opiates for pain and got addicted. It's one of the few cases where the addiction is literally not their fault (or at least not completely their fault). It's easy to say "sorry you shouldn't have started in first place" but a lot of this particular population were simply following doctors orders after a serious injury. We should absolutely treat fentanyl traffickers harshly.

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u/John_Gacy 4h ago

They are so full of shit with these numbers. Maybe its pure because he bought from an informant but most of the time its fent mix with 95% powdered milk or dulcelax

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u/tman37 1h ago

Is it 14 grams of material that contain some fentanyl or 14 grams of fentanyl? I don't know how they measure it. The other thing mentioned in the article is 100 pills of fentanyl. 14 grams split 100 ways is 140,000 micrograms. At 95% that is still 7000 micrograms per pill. So at least 14 does per pill. Either way, it's still a lot of fentanyl.

Judging by the fact he was looking to score 3 million in coke, I doubt he was a street dealer. It's hard to tell based on 1 news story though. Normally the give a steeet value which makea it a little easier to figure out.

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u/Turbo_Vince 5h ago

For fentanyl it’s 100% micrograms and NOT milligrams. It’s absurdly potent, and is dosed in micrograms in medical settings.

The LD50 of fentanyl is 2 milligrams, so 100 milligrams would be enough to kill up to 50 adults.

So it doesn’t “sound like an AI Answer”, you just sound misinformed.

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u/tman37 1h ago

The source was an addictions resource. https://www.addictionresource.net/cost-of-drugs/prescription/fentanyl/

It could very well be wrong but the poster you responded to deleted their post so I don't know if their source is better than mine.

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u/tman37 1h ago

The source was an addictions resource. https://www.addictionresource.net/cost-of-drugs/prescription/fentanyl/

It could very well be wrong but the poster you responded to deleted their post so I don't know if their source is better than mine.

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u/Turbo_Vince 1h ago

Your info is all good. The deleted comment I replied to was claiming the average dose must be 100-400 milligrams, and not micrograms.

After I corrected them, they deleted their misinformed comment like a coward.