Haleigh Marie Cummings #31 2/20/10 - 4/13/10

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thanks for all the updates everyone!

I also think that Lindsey is soooooo done with Tommy and his whole family...watching some of the video, she is so far removed from him now....Move on Lindsey...you seem like the smartest one of the bunch...Set a better example for your children than what they have been subjected to..bunch of losers ! jmo

[mymonkey]

thanks for all the updates everyone!

I also think that Lindsey is soooooo done with Tommy and his whole family...watching some of the video, she is so far removed from him now....Move on Lindsey...you seem like the smartest one of the bunch...Set a better example for your children than what they have been subjected to..bunch of losers ! jmo

I agree cookie I think Lindsy would have a better chance getting a  job in the nursing field if she would leave him.....maybe she would meet a nice Doctor and live happily ever after.
 ::monkeywine2::I sound like dreamer but I do wish her the best and that would be without TC.jmo

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Haleigh Cummings – Reflections From The Adult World

Posted on April 10th, 2010
by Simon Barrett in Op-ed

Here we are 14 months into this case. There is no sign of Haleigh Cummings. But online this missing child has become what can only be described as a phenomenon. Unfortunately most of the enthusiasm displayed in the early days has now disintegrated into an ongoing war of attrition. Attrition both in the press, the ‘experts’, and members of the general public.

Everyone has become polarized. There are the Ron Cummings fans, and in equal numbers the Ron Cummings haters. The Misty Croslin didn’t do it crowd, and the Misty Croslin must have done it mob. There are those that maintain that the biological mother Crystal was the guilty party. Others maintain it was Cousin Joe, Drug Dealers on a rampage wanting payment, Pedophiles wishing to sell the little girl into a life of sex abuse, etc. In fact about the only story I have not heard is that she was kidnapped by aliens, but I am sure that it got floated around somewhere.

So, here we sit 14 months later, and what do we know? The answer to that question is larger than the State of Texas. Alas none of this information seems to be bringing an answer to the simple question of what happened to Haleigh Cummings.

Here is my take, and I have no doubt that it will annoy most, if not all of the online camps.

Having been around the block more than a couple of times, the questions boil down to motive, accessibility, and expected result. All crimes have these aspects, the importance of one single aspect may vary from case to case, but they are always present.

Motive is a strange animal, for some it may be monetary, for others it might be revenge, or even sheer bloodymindedness.

The only person that could benefit in a monetary fashion from Haleigh Cummings was her mother Crystal. But this makes no sense. Crystal owed $12,000 in back child support, no-one doubted that for a moment. Would Crystal make her own daughter disappear to make the bill go away? That is an unlikely scenario. Crystal, by her own admissions had issues with substance abuse and maintaining a regular job. Do not get the idea that I am supporting her position, I am not. I think she is an idiot.

Next we have the little girls father, Ronald Cummings. I’ll be honest, I consider this man to be a waste of oxygen. However, he was the provider for the family, and did actually have a job. As best I can tell he had no motivation, monetary or other, to harm his daughter. I personally think he is an idiot, but that is just my view. If he wanted to divest himself of children, he would not have stopped with Haleigh, Jr. would have been included in the package.

That leaves us with Misty Croslin. At the time she was 17 and the live in baby sitter to the kids and also Ron’s lover.  Misty is no Snow White, but would she do something bad to a 5 year old? That is a question that I have wrestled with for months. She clearly has no concept of telling the truth. That has become very clear with her changing stories and the ‘leaked’ lie detector test results.

However I have to ask the question, what was in it for Misty?

It is obvious that there was no monetary gain for Misty. Haleigh’s disappearance would not change anything in Misty’s life, she would still have to deal with Jr.

This has been 14 months of frustration, and there is no light at the end of the tunnel. The family has been sliced and diced in the press and continues to be. Do they deserve this treatment? Oh, my answer is a resounding YES. However I also think that it is high time that everyone take a step back and look at this case with objectivity rather than venom.

Haleigh Cummings will be part of our program tomorrow. Tune in at 3pm central www.blogtalkradio.com

http://www.bloggernews.net/124275

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Caylee is dead, there is nothing that can be done to bring her back. The best we can hope for is that justice is served. That may, or may not happen.

Haleigh is missing, unfortunately she has been missing for such a long time that one has to wonder about her situation. Is she alive or dead? There are more suspects than an Agatha Christie novel. I even have a title for the book  ‘Murder On The Oxycontin Express’.

It was a great program, if you missed it, you can listen to the recording here.

Simon and Jan Barrett

more...

http://www.bloggernews.net/124278

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A prescription for disaster?

Misuse of legal drugs like oxycodone spurs more pharmacy robberies, fatal overdoses

By Cindy Swirko
Staff writer

Published: Monday, April 12, 2010 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, April 11, 2010 at 11:42 p.m.

For one Gainesville woman, it started after an accident. She was prescribed narcotics for pain and continued to get them from a pain management specialist.

And then it was the street, where buying oxycodone was easy enough. The woman, 47, who preferred to remain anonymous, ended up in prison.

"I got in a lot of trouble," she said. "It was the worst of anything that could happen. My marriage was ruined. My children didn't speak to me for years. It was a very, very big mess. I finally had to go to therapy."

The story of the woman, who now volunteers with the Gainesville chapter of Narcotics Anonymous, is fairly typical of the rising misuse of narcotics - particularly those in the oxycodone family.

Police and health experts say misuse of the drugs is killing more users through overdoses and spurring more crime as addicts shop for doctors to give them unwarranted prescriptions, rob pharmacies or buy the pills from street dealers.

Use is rising in bigger cities such as Gainesville and in small, rural towns.

"It is abused so terrible. There are false police reports of stolen prescriptions so they can get a refill. It has become a major problem for all of law enforcement," said Union County Sheriff Jerry Whitehead. "It's hard to battle because of the accessibility. It's everywhere."

Deaths in which oxycodone and hydrocodone were a factor have risen steeply both statewide and in the Florida Medical Examiner 8th District, which is composed of Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Levy and Union counties.

In 2006, for instance, oxycodone was a factor in six deaths in the 8th district. The number rose to 21 in 2008 before dropping to 14 in 2009.

If the recent string of robberies and other crimes is any indication, those numbers could be rising even higher.

Four local pharmacies have been robbed in the past few weeks by culprits seeking oxycodone-style drugs. Similar robberies have been reported in Marion and Columbia counties.

According to officials, the suspect in one Gainesville robbery, David Lowell Shadd of Union County, was found dead in his backyard days later from a suspected drug overdose, although toxicology reports have not been completed. The suspect in another robbery, a Gainesville woman, was arrested by police after she was spotted changing clothes behind a nearby store. Police recovered the drugs and a handgun she reportedly used.

Two people were arrested by police in their car at a Gainesville park Thursday with oxycodone. At least one suspect was preparing to inject the drug.

Gainesville police already have 85 cases this year in which oxycodone-style drugs are a factor.

Meanwhile, the sale and use of narcotics has landed various relatives of missing Putnam County girl Haleigh Cummings in jail.

Law enforcement officers from the local and the state level say people seem to be shifting from the use of illegal drugs to the illegal use of otherwise legal medicine.

"Over the last four or five years, prescription medicines have actually outpaced traditional illegal narcotics - cocaine (and) heroin. It almost seems as if more people are using prescription drugs as drugs of abuse than traditional illegal ones," said Steve Don Donaway, Florida Department of Law Enforcement assistant special agent. "The crime death statistics are showing that most of the people who die from overdoses are actually dying from prescription medicines."

Oxycodone is a pain reliever similar to morphine. Various forms of it go by trade names such as OxyContin, Percocet and Roxicet. A similar prescription pain reliever, hydrocodone, goes by trade names such as Vicodin and Lortab.

Dawn Snipes, director of residential services at Meridian Behavioral Healthcare in Gainesville, said people have different tolerance levels to such medications.

Some users end up needing increasing amounts to get any effect from them.

Some people who begin using prescription medications for pain but who also have other stress in their lives may be more susceptible to eventual addiction, she added.

Kicking the addiction is difficult. Withdrawal typically causes severe nausea, anxiety, diarrhea and other ills. Methadone is sometimes used for withdrawal as it is with heroin.

"It depends on the person, but some people develop a tolerance to it and one Percocet isn't enough so they take three or four. It is not unusual to have people injecting 30 in a day. The tolerance can really build up," Snipes said. "The younger people who get addicted probably took it recreationally, getting it from mom or dad or off the street, whereas older people probably are introduced to it from a physician or surgeries. You get a root canal and they give you Percocet."

The use or dealing of drugs by relatives of Haleigh Cummings, who has been missing since February 2009, is an example of how tight of a grip the drugs can have on people.

An undercover effort by the Putnam County Sheriff's Office and FDLE led to the arrests in January of five people on trafficking charges - Haleigh's father, Ronald Cummings; her baby sitter and Cummings' former wife, Misty Croslin; Croslin's brother, Hank "Tommy" Croslin Jr.; Cummings' cousin, Hope Sykes; and a friend, Donna Brock.

Croslin Jr.'s wife, Lindsy Croslin, told the Sun earlier this year that Hank Croslin Sr. began using narcotics after a car crash and that her husband started using them after that.

In videos of jail visits between the couple, Croslin Jr. frequently is heard saying he wishes he had never started using the pills and swears he is never going to use them again.

Abuse of the drugs is fairly common in Gainesville, police say. Cpl. Tscharna Senn, who until recently worked the weekend downtown patrol, said plenty of young people are using prescription narcotics.

"We've had a big, huge increase in prescription drug abuse recently," she said. "I would ask the college students who we found the pills on downtown, and they don't think it's illegal. To them, it's not as bad as using cocaine. If they take their mom's hydrocodone, they are not a drug abuser. But if they snort cocaine they are a drug abuser. That's how they justify it in their mind."

Donaway said many of the street-level dealers are involved in organized groups. He said "very sophisticated" groups doctor-shop to get multiple prescriptions. Donaway added that in South Florida, some doctors have clinics in recreational vehicles in parking lots that draw lines of people getting prescriptions.

It may be obvious to police what is going on in the mobile clinics, Donaway said, but difficult to prove in court.

"The doctors are licensed, but most of the time when you get into prescription doctor cases, the doctor tends not to be around or it has gotten to the point in his life where he may be such a loser that he is there signing prescriptions," Donaway said. "There are a thousand ways to skin a cat, and they find them all. The doctor gets paid for giving the prescription. There are some that are so blatant you just walk in there and say you have pain and a nurse hands you a prescription."

The former abuser who recounted her experiences for the Sun now seems to have gotten her life together. She uses stretching and exercise, along with "brain power," to control her pain. She's working several jobs, has returned to school and hopes to become a therapist to help people who are in the position she once was.

"It took a long comeback, but I did it," she said. "I feel as good as I can."

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20100412/ARTICLES/4121011/1002?p=1&tc=pg

[mymonkey]

A prescription for disaster?

Misuse of legal drugs like oxycodone spurs more pharmacy robberies, fatal overdoses

By Cindy Swirko
Staff writer

Published: Monday, April 12, 2010 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, April 11, 2010 at 11:42 p.m.

For one Gainesville woman, it started after an accident. She was prescribed narcotics for pain and continued to get them from a pain management specialist.

And then it was the street, where buying oxycodone was easy enough. The woman, 47, who preferred to remain anonymous, ended up in prison.

"I got in a lot of trouble," she said. "It was the worst of anything that could happen. My marriage was ruined. My children didn't speak to me for years. It was a very, very big mess. I finally had to go to therapy."

The story of the woman, who now volunteers with the Gainesville chapter of Narcotics Anonymous, is fairly typical of the rising misuse of narcotics - particularly those in the oxycodone family.

Police and health experts say misuse of the drugs is killing more users through overdoses and spurring more crime as addicts shop for doctors to give them unwarranted prescriptions, rob pharmacies or buy the pills from street dealers.

Use is rising in bigger cities such as Gainesville and in small, rural towns.

"It is abused so terrible. There are false police reports of stolen prescriptions so they can get a refill. It has become a major problem for all of law enforcement," said Union County Sheriff Jerry Whitehead. "It's hard to battle because of the accessibility. It's everywhere."

Deaths in which oxycodone and hydrocodone were a factor have risen steeply both statewide and in the Florida Medical Examiner 8th District, which is composed of Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Levy and Union counties.

In 2006, for instance, oxycodone was a factor in six deaths in the 8th district. The number rose to 21 in 2008 before dropping to 14 in 2009.

If the recent string of robberies and other crimes is any indication, those numbers could be rising even higher.

Four local pharmacies have been robbed in the past few weeks by culprits seeking oxycodone-style drugs. Similar robberies have been reported in Marion and Columbia counties.

According to officials, the suspect in one Gainesville robbery, David Lowell Shadd of Union County, was found dead in his backyard days later from a suspected drug overdose, although toxicology reports have not been completed. The suspect in another robbery, a Gainesville woman, was arrested by police after she was spotted changing clothes behind a nearby store. Police recovered the drugs and a handgun she reportedly used.

Two people were arrested by police in their car at a Gainesville park Thursday with oxycodone. At least one suspect was preparing to inject the drug.

Gainesville police already have 85 cases this year in which oxycodone-style drugs are a factor.

Meanwhile, the sale and use of narcotics has landed various relatives of missing Putnam County girl Haleigh Cummings in jail.

Law enforcement officers from the local and the state level say people seem to be shifting from the use of illegal drugs to the illegal use of otherwise legal medicine.

"Over the last four or five years, prescription medicines have actually outpaced traditional illegal narcotics - cocaine (and) heroin. It almost seems as if more people are using prescription drugs as drugs of abuse than traditional illegal ones," said Steve Don Donaway, Florida Department of Law Enforcement assistant special agent. "The crime death statistics are showing that most of the people who die from overdoses are actually dying from prescription medicines."

Oxycodone is a pain reliever similar to morphine. Various forms of it go by trade names such as OxyContin, Percocet and Roxicet. A similar prescription pain reliever, hydrocodone, goes by trade names such as Vicodin and Lortab.

Dawn Snipes, director of residential services at Meridian Behavioral Healthcare in Gainesville, said people have different tolerance levels to such medications.

Some users end up needing increasing amounts to get any effect from them.

Some people who begin using prescription medications for pain but who also have other stress in their lives may be more susceptible to eventual addiction, she added.

Kicking the addiction is difficult. Withdrawal typically causes severe nausea, anxiety, diarrhea and other ills. Methadone is sometimes used for withdrawal as it is with heroin.

"It depends on the person, but some people develop a tolerance to it and one Percocet isn't enough so they take three or four. It is not unusual to have people injecting 30 in a day. The tolerance can really build up," Snipes said. "The younger people who get addicted probably took it recreationally, getting it from mom or dad or off the street, whereas older people probably are introduced to it from a physician or surgeries. You get a root canal and they give you Percocet."

The use or dealing of drugs by relatives of Haleigh Cummings, who has been missing since February 2009, is an example of how tight of a grip the drugs can have on people.

An undercover effort by the Putnam County Sheriff's Office and FDLE led to the arrests in January of five people on trafficking charges - Haleigh's father, Ronald Cummings; her baby sitter and Cummings' former wife, Misty Croslin; Croslin's brother, Hank "Tommy" Croslin Jr.; Cummings' cousin, Hope Sykes; and a friend, Donna Brock.

Croslin Jr.'s wife, Lindsy Croslin, told the Sun earlier this year that Hank Croslin Sr. began using narcotics after a car crash and that her husband started using them after that.

In videos of jail visits between the couple, Croslin Jr. frequently is heard saying he wishes he had never started using the pills and swears he is never going to use them again.

Abuse of the drugs is fairly common in Gainesville, police say. Cpl. Tscharna Senn, who until recently worked the weekend downtown patrol, said plenty of young people are using prescription narcotics.

"We've had a big, huge increase in prescription drug abuse recently," she said. "I would ask the college students who we found the pills on downtown, and they don't think it's illegal. To them, it's not as bad as using cocaine. If they take their mom's hydrocodone, they are not a drug abuser. But if they snort cocaine they are a drug abuser. That's how they justify it in their mind."

Donaway said many of the street-level dealers are involved in organized groups. He said "very sophisticated" groups doctor-shop to get multiple prescriptions. Donaway added that in South Florida, some doctors have clinics in recreational vehicles in parking lots that draw lines of people getting prescriptions.

It may be obvious to police what is going on in the mobile clinics, Donaway said, but difficult to prove in court.

"The doctors are licensed, but most of the time when you get into prescription doctor cases, the doctor tends not to be around or it has gotten to the point in his life where he may be such a loser that he is there signing prescriptions," Donaway said. "There are a thousand ways to skin a cat, and they find them all. The doctor gets paid for giving the prescription. There are some that are so blatant you just walk in there and say you have pain and a nurse hands you a prescription."

The former abuser who recounted her experiences for the Sun now seems to have gotten her life together. She uses stretching and exercise, along with "brain power," to control her pain. She's working several jobs, has returned to school and hopes to become a therapist to help people who are in the position she once was.

"It took a long comeback, but I did it," she said. "I feel as good as I can."

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20100412/ARTICLES/4121011/1002?p=1&tc=pg

I see prescription drugs as a huge problem...and sadly I do not see how it can be corrected easily...I did read somewhere that the formula could  be changed as a solution...but does that mean less money for pharmaceutical companies and will they agree to it ?

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Someone is not telling the truth here or the author of the article is mistaken:

Croslin Jr.'s wife, Lindsy Croslin, told the Sun earlier this year that Hank Croslin Sr. began using narcotics after a car crash and that her husband started using them after that.
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20100412/ARTICLES/4121011/1002?p=3&tc=pg

Tommy and Hank discussed in a taped jail house visit that Tommy started with the pills back when he worked for Seminole. According to Hank Chico or whatever his name is got Tommy started on the pills.

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The former abuser who recounted her experiences for the Sun now seems to have gotten her life together. She uses stretching and exercise, along with "brain power," to control her pain. She's working several jobs, has returned to school and hopes to become a therapist to help people who are in the position she once was.

"It took a long comeback, but I did it," she said. "I feel as good as I can."

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20100412/ARTICLES/4121011/1002?p=1&tc=pg
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I see prescription drugs as a huge problem...and sadly I do not see how it can be corrected easily...I did read somewhere that the formula could  be changed as a solution...but does that mean less money for pharmaceutical companies and will they agree to it ?
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On Jan 15 this year, I broke my back at L3 vertebra.  The pain has been bad, and though back surgery has lessened it, it continues on.  I was prescribed Oxycontin for round the clock relief.  At some point I grew tired of the awful side effects (constipation being one of them), and switched to acetominophen (Tylenol).  The more active I am, the less pain relief I need.  A  few days of inactivity and the pain comes back.  The spinal cord injury leaves a right leg that is weak and very painful.   Slowly it is recovering as aided by physical activity.

I honestly have a difficult time understanding how anyone can get a high from Oxycontin.  Guess I'm lucky that way.  I'll stick to Tylenol and physical activity.

My heart goes out to those who get hooked on this awful stuff (Oxycontin).

[mymonkey]

The former abuser who recounted her experiences for the Sun now seems to have gotten her life together. She uses stretching and exercise, along with "brain power," to control her pain. She's working several jobs, has returned to school and hopes to become a therapist to help people who are in the position she once was.

"It took a long comeback, but I did it," she said. "I feel as good as I can."

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20100412/ARTICLES/4121011/1002?p=1&tc=pg

I see prescription drugs as a huge problem...and sadly I do not see how it can be corrected easily...I did read somewhere that the formula could  be changed as a solution...but does that mean less money for pharmaceutical companies and will they agree to it ?
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On Jan 15 this year, I broke my back at L3 vertebra.  The pain has been bad, and though back surgery has lessened it, it continues on.  I was prescribed Oxycontin for round the clock relief.  At some point I grew tired of the awful side effects (constipation being one of them), and switched to acetominophen (Tylenol).  The more active I am, the less pain relief I need.  A  few days of inactivity and the pain comes back.  The spinal cord injury leaves a right leg that is weak and very painful.   Slowly it is recovering as aided by physical activity.

I honestly have a difficult time understanding how anyone can get a high from Oxycontin.  Guess I'm lucky that way.  I'll stick to Tylenol and physical activity.

My heart goes out to those who get hooked on this awful stuff (Oxycontin).
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I am sure you feel blessed not to be hooked...I had some dental surgery done and was given Loratab (sp) when I took only one it numbed the pain and would be so so...when I took two I felt like superwoman...full of energy and no pain...like you many side effects...I could see how they could be addictive..my dentist said that the DEA watched him closely because people would cry about a toothache and did not mind getting a tooth pulled to get the meds....he also had the policy one time a prescription of 12 and after that take an aspirin,the dentist said anybody should recover from a tooth problem in 3 days tops Not to be mean but, I wonder if thats why Lisa has no teeth...you never know.

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The former abuser who recounted her experiences for the Sun now seems to have gotten her life together. She uses stretching and exercise, along with "brain power," to control her pain. She's working several jobs, has returned to school and hopes to become a therapist to help people who are in the position she once was.

"It took a long comeback, but I did it," she said. "I feel as good as I can."

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20100412/ARTICLES/4121011/1002?p=1&tc=pg

I see prescription drugs as a huge problem...and sadly I do not see how it can be corrected easily...I did read somewhere that the formula could  be changed as a solution...but does that mean less money for pharmaceutical companies and will they agree to it ?

On Jan 15 this year, I broke my back at L3 vertebra.  The pain has been bad, and though back surgery has lessened it, it continues on.  I was prescribed Oxycontin for round the clock relief.  At some point I grew tired of the awful side effects (constipation being one of them), and switched to acetominophen (Tylenol).  The more active I am, the less pain relief I need.  A  few days of inactivity and the pain comes back.  The spinal cord injury leaves a right leg that is weak and very painful.   Slowly it is recovering as aided by physical activity.

I honestly have a difficult time understanding how anyone can get a high from Oxycontin.  Guess I'm lucky that way.  I'll stick to Tylenol and physical activity.

My heart goes out to those who get hooked on this awful stuff (Oxycontin).
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I am sure you feel blessed not to be hooked...I had some dental surgery done and was given Loratab (sp) when I took only one it numbed the pain and would be so so...when I took two I felt like superwoman...full of energy and no pain...like you many side effects...I could see how they could be addictive..my dentist said that the DEA watched him closely because people would cry about a toothache and did not mind getting a tooth pulled to get the meds....he also had the policy one time a prescription of 12 and after that take an aspirin,the dentist said anybody should recover from a tooth problem in 3 days tops Not to be mean but, I wonder if thats why Lisa has no teeth...you never know.
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Thank you Mymonkey for your insite on using Oxycontin or other addictive painkillers.  Thank goodness I did not feel like superwoman at all- - - all I felt was profound nausea coupled with constipation to the point of impaction.  Guess I am lucky on this one.  I understand that in the state of FL there are many physicians willing to prescribe addictive substances to people known to be addicted to them.  It's amazing how addiction has afflicted biological members of Croslin family.  Most interesting is Misty's hefty habit at the age of just 17.  I've wondered what she will look like when she gets to her mother's (Lisa's) age.  And indeed wondered why Lisa is toothless at such a relatively young age herself.   It's an interesting look into the sad recesses of human self-destruction.  Hank Sr. seems to have gained some insite on the issue, but I think if given an chance with easy-to-get Oxycontin (or other), he'd be off to the races.  Misty's early jail tapes seems to depict one coming off the drugs to a forced sobriety- - - that is until she can acquire more stuff while behind bars.  I understand it's not too difficult to get it in jail, provided one has something to pay for it.  I thought I heard that she had received $400 while locked up, mostly from anonymous people.

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I'm so glad that your dentist takes precautions with addictive pain meds and offers only 3 days worth.  I'm lucky in that despite my extensively worked over mouth with many extractions, I've never had to use anything for the pain AFTER the extraction, but certainly had problems with infected root canals BEFORE the extraction.

I just looked up Lortab over at rxlist.com, and was surprized to learn that it is Hydrocodone, a very close relative of Oxycodone.  (I'm a chemist by trade.)  I had a prescription also for hydrocodone- - same effect as oxycodone, same awful side effects of  nausea and constipation.  Same stuff as far as I'm concerned. 

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Haleigh Cummings Update – Where Are The Ronald Cummings Jail Videos?

Posted on April 12th, 2010
by Simon Barrett in crime


I was asked this question the other day. In fact I have been accused of unfair reporting, I have published hours of tapes from the Croslin clan, but nothing from the Cummings side of the house.

I will be honest with you all, I don’t like any of the people involved. The Cummings, Croslin’s, Sheffield’s, they all give me pause for thought. The one thing I am absolutely certain about, I’d rather invite Jack The Ripper into my home than any of this bunch!

There may only be one person that really knows what happened to Haleigh Cummings, but the whole crowd give me the shivers. Actually Jack The Ripper might have been an interesting guy!

In an attempt to quell the rabid attacks about my lack of coverage of Ronald Cummings Jail House recordings I fired off an email to the one man in Putnam County that absolutely does have his finger on the cases pulse. I did not ask his permission to use his name, and while I do not think it would hurt, I will instead leave him anonymous.

    We do not video in our jail. I released a few telephone calls in the past by email, but there are a lot of them. To be honest, investigators listen to them, but I stopped. They are very boring, and it was taking up 30 minutes to an hour a day to review them. He knows the telephone is recorded and does not say anything.

So folks, take it for what it is. Does Ronald know more? Or does Ronald know nothing? We do not know. The one thing we do know is that the major players in the saga are all behind bars on an unrelated crime.

We may never have a definitive answer to what actually happened to Haleigh Cummings, but, justice is being served by having the whole crowd behind bars.

Oh, and if things go well, we should have another set jail vids of the Croslin clangoing live tomorrow.

Simon Barrett

http://www.bloggernews.net/124291

[GramaMonkey]

http://www.news4jax.com/news/23135405/detail.html

 

Tip In Haleigh Case Prompts River Search

Girl Missing 14 Months Would Now Be 6-Years-Old

POSTED: Tuesday, April 13, 2010
UPDATED: 11:27 am EDT April 13, 2010



SATSUMA, Fla. -- Putnam County deputies and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement are searching the St. Johns River south of Satsuma Tuesday morning, and authorities confirm the search is connected to the Haleigh Cummings investigation.

Lt. Johnny Greenwood said the search was prompted by one of the thousands of leads received by the Putnam County Sheriff's Office since the 5-year-old girl disappeared from her bed in her father's mobile home 14 months ago.

The sheriff's office was not releasing the exact location of the search effort in an attempt to prevent congestion from onlookers. Channel 4 learned that the search area is within 5 miles of where Haleigh disappeared in February 2008.

"Although various resources are being utilized to conduct this search, it is just one of many operations conducted during this investigation," Greenwood said in a media release Tuesday morning. "Due to the sensitivity of this investigation, the name of the person providing the tip and the physical evidence alleged to be in this area, will not be released."

Haleigh's father, Ronald Cummings, and former stepmother, Misty, remain in jail facing drug trafficking charges that authorities say are unrelated to Haleigh's disappearance.

Anyone with information on Haleigh's disappearance or whereabouts is asked to contact

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[clarice]

Confirmed by Greenwood:

...Search is on in the waters in Satsuma for Haleigh.
...LE not to release location

OOPs! Hi Grama..you beat me to it. Thanks for the link.

[MuffyBee]

Thank you for bringing the news of another seach, Grama & clarice.  It means the investigation is continuing and tips are still coming in.  I hope something pans out soon.  Haleigh needs to come home. 

[maureen]

http://www.bloggernews.net/124292

a bit cryptic, even by Simon's own admission, but gives hope that there is movement in this case!

[akmom]

    Thanks for the heads up  I have been rejoicing in Nadia's thread,  I don't know what to think

[Brandi]

http://www.news4jax.com/news/23135405/detail.html

 

Tip In Haleigh Case Prompts River Search

Girl Missing 14 Months Would Now Be 6-Years-Old

POSTED: Tuesday, April 13, 2010
UPDATED: 11:27 am EDT April 13, 2010



SATSUMA, Fla. -- Putnam County deputies and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement are searching the St. Johns River south of Satsuma Tuesday morning, and authorities confirm the search is connected to the Haleigh Cummings investigation.

Lt. Johnny Greenwood said the search was prompted by one of the thousands of leads received by the Putnam County Sheriff's Office since the 5-year-old girl disappeared from her bed in her father's mobile home 14 months ago.

The sheriff's office was not releasing the exact location of the search effort in an attempt to prevent congestion from onlookers. Channel 4 learned that the search area is within 5 miles of where Haleigh disappeared in February 2008.

"Although various resources are being utilized to conduct this search, it is just one of many operations conducted during this investigation," Greenwood said in a media release Tuesday morning. "Due to the sensitivity of this investigation, the name of the person providing the tip and the physical evidence alleged to be in this area, will not be released."

Haleigh's father, Ronald Cummings, and former stepmother, Misty, remain in jail facing drug trafficking charges that authorities say are unrelated to Haleigh's disappearance.

Anyone with information on Haleigh's disappearance or whereabouts is asked to contact

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[Cappuccino]

Wonder where the "tip" came from....I pray we find some answers.

[akmom]

Does anyone know, off hand, where this is in relation to Ron's work?