Man Accused of Intending to Sell 'Spice', Crack Near Church

A Tarpon Springs police officer was watching Sept. 6 when Alonzo Davis reach into his backpack and complete a hand-to-hand transaction with two women in front of a convenience store at 23 S. Walton Ave, according to an arrest report from the police department.

Officers approached him at the store, which is within 1,000 feet of Antioch Catholic Church at 715 E. Orange Street.

 When one asked if he Davis, 24,  anything illegal in the backpack, he rummaged through it and declared that all he had was Spice, a common name for synthetic marijuana.

But that wasn’t all the drugs he had on him., police say.

They say Davis, a known drug dealer, also had 52 pills of Cariprosodol, some crack-cocaine, Clonazepam and a ledger and a ledger documenting his efforts to cultivate and  sell drugs, according to he arrest report.

When an officer discovered the Cariprosodol, Davis ran south on Walton. An officer caught him and took him into custody.

Davis, of 514 E. Morgan St., Tarpon Springs, was arrested Sept. 6  and charged with  resisting an officer without violence four counts of possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell  within 1,000 feet of a church.