Re: Ronald Cummings, arrest record surrounding counties
In these counties, traffic violations, 9 years ago (Ronald age 16)
Marion County: traffic violation 7/20/2000
St. John's County: Nothing
Flagler: 7/8/2000 Speeding
Clay County: Nothing
Sarasota: 11/1999 Driver's license violation
9/29/2005: traffic stop, with police bringing in drug dogs. Found (alleged) morphine and a drug for which R. had no prescription (Xanax? drug not identified in court record). Was cited for violating PFA taken out by Crystal. Charges were dropped/abandoned on 10/18/2005.
Now, a look at Jane Velez-Mitchell's transcript below shows at least one place where much of the debate over Ron's record fueled. Jane and her guests speculate as to why the case was "dropped/abandoned": was he an informant? Lots of breathless speculation and talk as if Ron had been arrested days before Haleigh's disappearance. Talk that the charges were "mysteriously" dropped. All of this gets replayed over and over on these threads. What is omitted are the experts and witnesses who say things like this:
and this:
A few years ago, a friend's son was stopped at a red light trap (where LE freezes a light late at night and then pulls the driver when he/she goes through the light after waiting for several minutes). The officer searched the car without permission and found an empty marijuana pipe. The kid (19) was tossed in jail and interrogated about giving up his "drug supplier." He was released in the morning but charged with possession of paraphernalia. A very well-know criminal defense attorney took the case; we went to the hearing but it was over before we got into the hearing room. Literally. We never got to sit down. Once they knew who the attorney was, they dropped the charges. Just like that. We don't know why the charges in Ron's case were dropped, but it is most likely that Ronald had a decent attorney who may have raised questions about the search. It may also be that the lab tests did not come back with enough evidence to go forward, that it turned out that Ron had a prescription for whatever he had, and/or the charge of violation of the PFA (a matter of distance) did not hold up. Ron's sister in the same JVM interview said he had a lawyer for these charges and that is why they were dismissed. When the charge is felony possession of narcotics, my lawyer friend says you mortgage the house to get the best legal representation possible.
Once again, arrests can be made, charges may be brought. That doesn't mean that the person will be found guilty or that the person IS guilty or that if he is, the state can make the case in a trial. What is clear to me is that we should not be tossing about these claims when we cannot possibly know what happened in court because the REASON for the dropped charges is not public record. And all that said, the arrest was 4 years ago--almost all of his adult life has been lived since then.
I know there was an arrest where he had some of the drugs in his possession that Whisperer recently stated. I read it somewhere and now I can't find it. Whisperer do you know where that happened? I will have to do some more searching.
Charges 9/05 Sarasota Co.:
DRUGS POSSESS-CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE WITHOUT PRESCRIPTION
DRUGS POSSESS-CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE WITHOUT PRESCRIPTION
VIOL INJUNCTION PROTECTION DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 10/18/2005
DRUGS-POSSESS NEW LEGEND DRUG WO PRESCRIPTION
One of the drugs named was morphine. Others were not listed. All of the above charges were dropped/abandoned.
Where does it state that drug dogs were brought in? I must have missed that.
I've heard that when RC was arrested in Sarasota Co. Crystal was with him so why wasn't she arrested? Was she or anybody else with him? Was he carrying the drugs or were they in the car? If the latter happened I can understand why the charges didn't stick-too hard to prove who is responsible for them. Even though the charges were dropped it doesn't make it right that he was in possession of them-it is illegal. The 9/05 drug arrest was made at the time that Ron was in the process of gaining custody and one of the reasons he stated he wanted custody was that their mother has a drug problem and here he is the one arrested for drugs!
Why does the transscript you posted state that Jane was asking Vinny Parco, P.I. and the pastor responded? Is that a typo? Why would Ron be speaking w/VP and calling him "pastor"? If that is the pastor talking and he doesn't know Ron very well (I don't think RC is the church going type) and RC throws him a bunch of bs then that is what he is going to believe. Which is what I think Ron did-he's cunning and manipulative and I have no doubt he would lie to a pastor.
As for your other quote-of course a defense lawyer is going to say that-that is how they operate!
The reason they were dropped is PUBLIC info.-just not available online. I'm not going to drive to FL to look at them or waste money buying them.
The police officer did his job by arresting RC. If Crystal or some other person was with him they could bring that up in court and raise doubt the drugs may not be the defendants and the judge throws the case out. There are so many holes in the laws people walk all the time.
1/02/2001 he has a license but he was cited for:
2001-01-02 1 TRAFFIC CITATION - #8654-AJQ-5 LECLAIR
2001-01-02 1 VIOLATION OF LICENSE RESTRICTIONS (BUSINESS PURPOSES)
He was fined and put on probation. He also had a 7pm curfew and had to tour the jail-lol-I guess they want to show you if you keep being bad where you will end up. Sadly it does not work for some people.
12/12/02 charges are:
2002-12-12 1 ARREST REPORT - PCSO (ARREST 12/12/2002)
2002-12-12 1 POSSESSION OF COCAINE
2002-12-12 1 POSSESSION OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
2002-12-12 1 POSSESSION OF CANNABIS UNDER 20 GRAMS
2002-12-12 1 POSSESSION OF DRUG WITHOUT PRESCRIPTION
2002-12-12 1 POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA
11/16/06
Guilty of Careless driving and expired registration-Volusia County
IMO all of Ron's charges, infractions, citations, what ever you want to call them show character of a person who is hot tempered, irresponsible, involved with drugs and doesn't obey the law. I didn't even list the charges that have occured after Haleigh disappeared. These actions could have led to the tragedy of what happened to Haleigh. You may not agree with me and that's fine, I respect your opinion, just stating my case as you have stated yours. If we all agreed we wouldn't have anything to discuss!
My thoughts and opinions only.