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TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 BROWARD COUNTY EDITION $1.50 SOUTH FLORIDA A SunSentmel SunSentinel.com SPORTS Go! Heat need some luck Hanging 101 7 WEATHER High: 86 Low: 77 Forecast, 8D ONLINE Ex-player's mansion has wow factor See Asante Samuels' home that's for sale. SunSentinel chesMansion tj In fine voice Florida Grand Opera ends on a high note. 8D Pop goes series Palm Beach Pops ending seasonal concerts. 8D INDEX Opinion 6A Lottery 2B 4B Go! 8D Important lessons from minicamp Dolphins got good look at young players. 1C 9 Store sold pot-laced candy, police say Owner of Cozy Corner smoke shop faces 5 felony drug charges BY TONYA ALANEZ Staff writer PLANTATION Over-the- counter sales of marijuana- laced gummy bears and ounces of pot have prompted the arrest of the owner of a Plantation t.

novelty store, court records show. After an informant tipped off Plantation police about illegal SUSAN STOCKERSTAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Jonathan Whaley, a director for London's New Year's Day Parade, shoots a selfie Monday with former Lord Mayor of Westminster Duncan Sandys, center, and students in West Boca High's marching band. LONDON CALLING drug sales at the shop, an Delapaz undercover detective made two separate marijuana buys at Cozy Corner Novelties, 4244 Peters Road, according to a search warrant. The first buy on March 23 yielded nine grams of marijuana for $40 and an electronic cigarette with THC liquid for $40. The second buy on April 2 was heftier: 32 grams of marijuana and eight THC gummy bears for $200, according to a search warrant.

When the detective returned to make a third buy on April 9, the store's owner, Richard Delapaz, 44, was arrested and police confiscated cocaine, marijuana, psilocybin mushrooms, THC liquid and a variety of marijuana-laced edibles, the warrant said. See POT, 5A band is one of 12 this year in the U.S. and the first in Palm Beach County to get an invitation, school district officials said. Elsewhere in South Florida, Coral Springs' Taravella High School marched at the parade in 2014. Marching bands are always a big hit among parade-goers, said Sandys, who serves as a senior patron of the parade.

But London doesn't have high school marching bands, so officials have to scout for talent in the U.S. West Boca High's band was recommended to them by a Florida band association. The group's performance Mon- See BAND, 5A By Brittany Shammas Staff writer Members of West Boca Raton Community High School's award-winning marching band were a little nervous before performing early Monday in a brief ceremony at their school's auditorium. They had a special guest: the former Lord Mayor of Westminster, Duncan Sandys, who's also the great-grandson of Winston Churchill. Wearing a red, fur-lined robe and white gloves, Sandys had come to officially ask the band to march next year at London's New Year's Day Parade, a popular event worldwide nearing its third decade.

West Boca High band invited to perform in world-famous parade "I know that people who have done this in the previous 30 years, who have come to London, it's something that has had a deep effect on them and that they have carried with them for the rest of their lives," said Sandys, who as Lord Mayor was the leader of the governing body of Westminster, an area in central London. "It gives me great pleasure to formally make this invitation to you." Called Vanguard, the 130-member George Zimmerman treated for facial wounds after shooting YOUR NATION, YOUR WORLD US retools policy on deportations Homeland Security has been promising local leaders that only serious crimes will generate action by ICE. 2A Russia and China form partnership Sanctions imposed after the bloody Ukraine crisis made Russia seek assistance from its communist neighbor. 3A Neglected Deerfield site could soon be demolished Officials may be close to making a decision on Deerfield Beach's crumbling Village Inn, a nine-acre property located on Hillsboro Boulevard. After more than three years of bankruptcy and neglect, it is now a sprawl of vines and graffiti art.

A May 18 hearing is planned before Broward County's Unsafe Structures Board. "It looks like a war zone and it's stayed looking like a war zone since I became aware of it," said resident Andrea Reitor. "It bothers me every time I drive by it" Story, IB By Jeff Weiner and Stephanie Allen Staff writers George Zimmerman, the former Neighborhood Watch volunteer who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, suffered minor injuries in a roadside shooting Monday in Central Florida The shooter is thought to be Matthew Apperson of Winter Springs a man who accused Zimmerman of making threats during a road-rage incident on the same road last year, said Lake Mary Police Department Chief Steve Bracknell. See SHOOTING, 5A mm Impact Resistant Professionally Installed Energy Efficient Window Independent Distributor WinGuard One of South Florida's Leading Window and Door Companies We reach nearly 1.5 million adults every week with the combined resources of: Vol. 56, No.

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