In a room filled with her peers and members of the Florida Gulf Coast University administration, Student Government Senate President Jasmine Villanueva resigned from her position at a meeting Tuesday. Her resignation came amid allegations that she and five other Student Government members smoked marijuana during a student-funded trip.
“I love (student government); I love what you stand for. Please consider this my resignation,” Villanueva said.
In all, six students— Villanueva, Student Body President Peter Ryther, Director of Environmental Initiatives Tyler Offerman and Senators Rebecca Gwyn, Rafael Feliciano and Millie Ruiz — were accused of smoking pot.
Four fellow student government members say they saw the group smoking marijuana during the organization’s annual retreat held on the weekend of June 5. The retreat, known as Flight School, was sponsored by student government and was funded by FGCU activity and services fees, which come from student tuition.
The total cost of the bill was $10,950.
Sen. Rosa Mendoza, one of the students bringing the allegations forward, believes her peers should be removed from their positions as student leaders.
“We can’t let this slide, especially since (Ryther) is the main representative of student government,” Mendoza said.
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MIAMI -- Nearly 800 pounds of marijuana was offloaded from a suspicious vessel in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday.
The marijuana, with an estimated street value of $725,000, was in a 20-foot boat that was seen traveling west from Bimini, Bahamas at about midnight, the Coast Guard reported.
Coast Guard officials boarded the vessel to conduct an initial safety inspection and said they could see the bricks of marijuana in plain view.
The two suspected smugglers aboard the vessel were detained and transferred to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers. The vessel and the marijuana were taken to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and CBP officers in Fort Lauderdale.
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When Samer Shehada read the news this morning, he started shaking with anger: The former Miami Beach cop who shot and killed his brother last summer had just been arrested for running a marijuana grow house.
Samer was with his brother, Husien, that night, walking down Washington Ave., just after 4 a.m. when a swarm of officers pulled up, acting on a tip that one of the brothers had a gun.
The brothers turned toward the cops, and raised their hands -- an act caught on video by the nightclub Twist's video camera. Then, inexplicably, one of the cops started shooting.
Husien, a 29-year-old from Virginia, died in his brother's arms on the sidewalk.
Since that night, Samer has told anyone who will listen that Tavss murdered his brother for no reason. Now that Tavss is under arrest, charged today with growing 47 marijuana plants in a lab in his West Kendal home, Shehada hopes prosecutors will look seriously at criminally charging him in his brother's shooting.
"It's obvious now that it wasn't a cop who killed my brother that night, it was just some thug," Shehada says.
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