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Deputies: Marijuana, Guns Found In Home

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: March 3, 2009

Deputies intercepted 10 pounds of marijuana heading to a Riverview home, and when investigators entered the house, they found several guns and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition, Hillsborough County deputies say.

Deputies arrested Burt E. Temple, 44, and Penny L. Porter, 46, about 4 p.m. Friday.

Temple and Porter were each charged with possession of marijuana with intent to sell, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

The marijuana was heading to 6826 Alafia Drive when the sheriff's office's Major Violators Unit intercepted it. Members of the unit came to the Riverview home, and Temple and Porter said they were expecting the drugs, deputies say.

Inside a safe in Temple's bedroom, deputies found about 56 grams of marijuana as well as a shotgun, handguns, rifles, ammunition and a Ruger .22-caliber semiautomatic handgun with a homemade silencer.

The drugs are worth about $10,000, deputies say.

Temple and Porter were released from jail with bail set at $9,000 each.

Man Detained At Tribune Building

A man armed with a handgun and threatening to kill himself outside the building shared by The Tampa Tribune, TBO.com and WFLA, Channel 8, was taken into custody Monday afternoon by Tampa police officers.

No shots were fired.

The man was sitting against a wall near an area where WFLA photographers park vans and trucks, Tampa police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said.

When the man refused to drop a .45-caliber handgun, officers used a Taser to subdue him, McElroy said.

The man is not an employee of the Tribune, TBO .com, WFLA or parent company Media General. It is unclear why he chose the location, McElroy said.

The man told police he had been depressed and "couldn't cope," McElroy said. The man called the television station and told an assignment editor where he was about 5:30 p.m. Police also say the man might have called 911.

The man was taken into custody under the state's Baker Act.

Suit Filed Over Chinese Drywall
CORAL GABLES - A class-action lawsuit in Miami federal court alleges imported Chinese drywall is causing health problems, making new homes smell like rotten eggs and ruining appliances.

The lawsuit filed Monday names several homebuilders, an importer and a company that manufactured drywall in China. The product was used from about 2005 to 2007, when the building boom, combined with hurricanes and other disasters, made materials scarce.

The plaintiffs allege 30,000 Florida homes are affected.

A staff and wire report

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