Can’t go a day without some nutso Floridians

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CHILTON COUNTY, Ala. (WSFA) - Chilton County sheriff’s investigators are trying to unravel the truth in a “bizarre” situation that started unraveling shortly after they conducted a welfare check on some people sleeping in a car.

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The deputy asked the driver to step from the vehicle after determining there was possible drug use. The man, later identified as Michael David Howard, of Milton, Florida, sent up red flags for the deputy when he couldn’t provide the names of the kids or any information about them

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Mayfield said a search of the man and the vehicle lead to the discovery of meth and a meth pipe and he was arrested on two drug charges. It was later determined Howard has multiple out-of-state felony drug convictions.

While searching the vehicle, Mayfield said investigators found a piece of cardboard with a note on it that appeared to provide permission from the kids’ mother for Howard to transport them from Florida to their grandmother’s home in Ohio. Mayfield said none of that has been verified by the sheriff’s office, though work is continuing to find out if it’s true or false.

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Mayfield said investigators determined Jackson had known the man less than a day before allegedly giving him $200 to take the kids to Ohio.

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