DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Sheriff Mike Chitwood has held elective office for nearly 18 months now and while on the surface, his tough-talking Scumbag Eradicator persona continues to resonate with the public, there is a dark underside to him behind closed doors that he and his PR flaks have managed to contain, but for how long?
Consider: Chitwood's hyperbole is scoffed at by high-end cocaine traffickers who have found even greater profit margins in supply and demand far beyond the typical crack-smoking druggie or heroin-junkie prostitute.
With the pill mills and pharmacies under greater government scrutiny in the last couple of years, prescriptions for pain pills and other synthetic opioids like fentanyl are creating a generation of children without parents as the bodies continue to stack up in the county morgue.