"Pasco Department Hired Girls, 17 and 18, as Drug Informants" - Lucy Morgan - St. Petersburg Times

Byline: Lucy Morgan; 1984-05-06; St. Petersburg Times; pages 13B

Report: Inside the Pasco County Sheriff's Department: A Special Report - St. Petersburg Times

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"As part of a drug investigation, the Pasco County sheriff's Department once installed a 17-year-old runaway and her 18-year-old friend in a mobile home, where the young women sometimes traded sex for drugs. The mother of the 17-year-old girl had already reported her daughter as a runaway and had asked the Sheriff's Department for help in finding the girl, a juvenile. Meanwhile she was being used in the investigation without her parents' knowledge. . ."

Description:Pasco County's sheriff's department used young girls in a drug investigation.

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