The South Carolina sheriff's deputy who stopped a car with two University of South Florida students inside in August says he initially suspected the silver Toyota with a Florida tag was involved in drug trafficking. ...more

February 20, 2008

The South Carolina sheriff's deputy who stopped a car with two University of South Florida students in August says he initially suspected the silver Toyota with a Florida tag was involved in drug trafficking. But under questioning by defense attorneys for the two men, Deputy James Lamar Blakely said that when he was told by another deputy that the pair had copies of the Quran, that raised suspicions in his mind of terrorism. ...more

February 19, 2008

In a hearing over motions by the defense to suppress evidence seized in the explosives case of two former USF students, a deputy says he was thinking drug bust when he stopped the two men. ...more

February 19, 2008