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2 in Tampa charged with selling drugs in former police car

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Published: May 22, 2009

TAMPA - Two men driving a 2005 Ford Crown Victoria that had once been a police car drew the attention Thursday of some real investigators, who said the two were conducting drug deals from the car.

Kenneth Wade Anderson, 21, of Floral City, and Anthony Vincent Henaghan, 21, of Brooksville, were each held without bail at the Orient Road Jail today. Both are charged with felony trafficking in the prescription painkiller Oxycodone and felony obtaining a controlled substance by fraud.

Tampa police arrested the pair about 7:40 p.m. Thursday during a traffic stop after a concerned citizen called in a tip about the car.

The tipster told police that the car, complete with push bumper, dark-tinted windows and spotlight, was parked behind a McDonald's restaurant at 4009 N. Armenia Ave. and that the people inside seemed to be involved in a drug deal, police said.

Undercover officers responded and noticed the car still in the parking lot about 7:20 p.m. When it left, police followed it and pulled over the car at North Dale Mabry Highway and West Sligh Avenue for a traffic stop about the illegal dark tint on the windshield.

A search of the vehicle found a residual amount of marijuana, 687 Oxycodone pills and $2,475 in cash, police said.

Police said Anderson later was identified as the ringleader of a prescription-fraud ring in Sumter, Hernando, Pasco, Pinellas and Hillsborough counties.

The investigation is continuing.

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