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• It was a tough day for Franklin County (Florida) Sheriff A.J. Smith, the Miami Herald reported.
His deputies conducted a "controlled buy" that day involving Smith's 38-year-old daughter, Kristen Kent, who was charged with trafficking methamphetamine.
The sheriff, whose office features a sign saying "We don't meth around," admitted that this case "hit him in the face."
When his deputies arrested a different woman for trafficking, she told them she had gotten the drugs from Kent.
"My daughter?" he asked. "Yes, sir," she answered.
He called it "gut-wrenching."
Still, he said Kent would receive the same treatment he recommends for others who are caught up in meth's effects.
"Methamphetamine does not discriminate and neither do we," he said. [Miami Herald, 4/21/2022]