South Florida Entrepreneur Who Avoided Conviction On Drug Charges Faces New Case

If you get arrested on suspicion of a crime, it could mean that your life will never be the same.  The only way that your case can truly go away is if you get acquitted at trial or if the court dismisses the charges; the latter scenario is more common, since only a small percentage of cases go to trial.  The courts sometimes dismiss charges when it is obvious that the evidence against you is not sufficient to secure a conviction.  Another way to get charges dismissed is through pretrial diversion programs, which are available to defendants with no prior convictions who are accused of certain nonviolent crimes.  Drug court programs are among the most widely available and well-known types of pretrial diversion programs.  If you are young and you get charged with drug possession, your chances of going to drug court and eventually getting your charges dropped are at least as great as your chances of going to jail.  Only the lucky few get their charges dismissed more than once.  If you got your previous drug case dismissed, but now you are in legal trouble again, contact a West Palm Beach drug offenses lawyer.

A Backpack Full of Candy for Grownups

One of the factors judges may consider is the consequences a criminal conviction or jail or prison sentence may have on a defendant’s future or on the people who depend financially on the defendant.  This is one of the reasons that the courts are sometimes more lenient with defendants with no prior convictions.  Alexandra Ramroopsingh, 25, has been arrested for drug possession three times but has thus far avoided criminal convictions.  On paper, she seems like the last person police would suspect of drug crimes.

Ramroopsingh’s legal income derives from Rocky’s Sweet Treats, a baked goods business she started during the pandemic, when many other home-based food delivery businesses thrived.  The business is still registered to her parents’ address in Margate.  The first time, the court dismissed the charges quickly, and the second time, the court ordered her to complete probation as part of a pretrial diversion program but later dismissed the charges without her completing the probation.  This summer, Ramroopsingh was arrested again after a traffic stop in Coconut Creek while on her way to deliver baked goods to a customer.  Police pulled her over for aggressive driving and decided to search the car because it smelled like cannabis.  During the search, they found a firearm and a backpack full of drugs, including marijuana, THC edibles, LSD, Adderall pills, and MDMA.  According to the Local 10 news website, Ramroopsingh told police that she intended to sell the drugs.  She said that she was carrying the gun for protection; news sources did not indicate whether she had purchased it legally.  She told the police that she sometimes sold drugs to customers of her baked goods business.

Contact a West Palm Beach Criminal Defense Lawyer Today

Attorney William Wallshein has more than 40 years of experience, including five years as a prosecutor in Palm Beach County.  Contact William Wallshein P.A. in West Palm Beach, Florida to discuss your case.

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local10.com/news/local/2024/06/15/rockys-sweet-treats-owner-arrested-again-for-alleged-drug-dealing-in-broward/