Allegations that slain Seminole County firefighter Jerry Perdomo was involved with drugs has prompted a local law enforcement investigation as new details surfaced about his experience with prescription pills.
Meanwhile, his alleged killer, Daniel Porter, is not expected to appear in court Thursday in Maine as previously planned because a snow storm has closed the courthouse. His appearance has been rescheduled for Friday.
Porter, 24, is charged in the drug-related homicide of Perdomo, a former U.S. Marine.
Perdomo said he took prescription pills after a knee injury and he once counseled fellow Marines who were addicted to pain killers, according to a deposition he gave in a 2008 auto negligence lawsuit, the Daytona Beach News-Journal is reporting.
Perdomo said in the deposition that he was injured while serving in the Marine Corps in Iraq and Kuwait and suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.
A spokeswoman with the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Thursday that authorities in Florida are investigating possible drug trafficking in Central Florida in connection with the case.
“We’re aware of the accounts that drugs might have been involved in this case, and we will look into this and work with the Maine State Police as needed,” Heather Smith said in a statement.
Perdomo’s body was discovered Wednesday near the wooded home of one of Porter’s relatives. An autopsy is scheduled to be performed Thursday.
In an affidavit released Wednesday, investigators revealed that Perdomo went to Maine to collect a $3,000 debt from Porter and both men were involved in drugs.
This could really, really hurt Obama’s re-election chances down there.
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Go ahead and delete my post again but I am sick and tired of all the dirt bags in Maine and coming to Maine putting my family and your’s at risk. I am also tired of all the press they get while good, caring people are ignored as if they are the abnormal ones! Perdomo the victimized fireman is a bunch of baloney. He is a low life who cared for no one, including his own family. Only Porter makes him look good.
We have an abundance of home grown dirt bags here already. And they are the ones responsible for creating the market that makes it so profitable for the out-of-state dirt bags to bring drugs into the State.
I think it’s time we all accepted that drug use is NOT a victimless crime. The recreational use of ANY mind altering drug makes the user prone to doing irrational things and not being responsible for their own behavior. That’s bad for each of us in our society. Alcohol is no exception but is so entrenched in our society that it’s not going away. Unfortunately, we’ll continue to pay for that with higher health care costs and DUI accidents that kill many innocent people each year. But there’s no sense in adding to the list of legal ways to drug yourself into doing stupid things and hurting your health. It’s time that we got very serious about punishing those are contributing to this hazard to our society, both the dealers at all levels, AND the user who creates the demand for the illegal product. Potential drug users should know that you get just ONE slap on the wrist and then you spend a couple of years in jail for the second offense and then you get to pay for the cost of your own incarceration, and the third time it’s 5 years in jail plus reimbursing the taxpayers. It’s time to stop winking at this scourge and start talking to druggies in a way that will get through to them. What we’re doing now isn’t working.
Drug use is a victimless crime. illegal sales of drugs is not.
No one forces the user to use, no one hold him down and pumps drugs into his arm, mouth, or other orifice. PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY is a duty which comes with the proud honor of living in a “free country.”
I’ll grant you that IF you manufacture all your own drugs, and you define drug use to mean just the act of ingesting them, what you say would be true. But I doubt whether that happens in a very large percentage of drug possession cases. In order for there to be an illegal drug sale, there must be a seller, AND a buyer/user, BOTH committing an illegal act.
But the much bigger threat to society is simply the fact that he’s USING the drug, rendering his mind not his own and increasing the likelihood that he’ll do something dangerous or stupid or both while under its influence. Then, instead of a hefty sentence he’ll expect and probably get sympathy and free “treatment” for his “illness” (that he freely chose to subject himself to) and if he has unintentionally injured or killed someone while under a drugs influence, he’ll get more lenient treatment by the courts than if he had chosen to commit his crime while sober. It’s the users CHOICE to use drugs illegally and it’s time we stopped making ANY excuses for them and held them 100% accountable.
I am required by the government to get drug tested in order to earn my living and pay taxes to support these deadbeats. The very least our government should do is to ensure that those whom they give my hard earned money to are just as drug free as I am! If they have enough money to buy drugs, then they obviously don’t need welfare money so they can buy MORE drugs.