{"id":328754,"date":"2026-07-03T20:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/328754\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T20:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:32:07","slug":"florida-man-accused-of-trying-to-hide-cocaine-in-teenagers-pocket-during-traffic-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/328754\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man accused of trying to hide cocaine in teenager&#8217;s pocket during traffic stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONROE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 A Florida man allegedly tried to hide drugs in a teenager&#8217;s pocket during a traffic stop on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.keysso.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> the Monroe County Sheriff&#8217;s Office,<\/a> deputies pulled over a Honda sedan on U.S. 1 at about 4:30 p.m. for an expired registration. John Thorton Carrero, of Florida City, was identified as the driver.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/florida-news-school-grades-released-see-how-your-school-district-did-south-florida-education-new-okeechobee-palm-beach-indian-river-st-lucie-martin-county-4250-public-elementary-middle-and-high-schools-grades-classroom-learning-a-b-c-d-e-letter-grades\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida school grades released: See how your school, district did<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deputies said they smelled a strong odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle. During the investigation, they found about 10.1 grams of cocaine in the teenager&#8217;s jeans pocket. Investigators later determined that Carrero had forcefully placed the drugs in the teenager&#8217;s pocket while deputies were conducting the traffic stop in an attempt to hide them.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies also found 0.8 grams of marijuana, several pipes and small bags commonly used to package drugs for sale inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager was not arrested and was released to a family member. The <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccess.myflfamilies.com\/Public\/login\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida Department of Children and Families<\/a> was notified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONROE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A Florida man allegedly tried to hide drugs in a teenager&#8217;s pocket during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-328754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}