{"id":3220,"date":"2011-01-24T17:30:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T22:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2011-01-24T17:30:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T22:30:25","slug":"cousin-of-dontae-morris-facing-more-than-70-felony-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=3220","title":{"rendered":"Cousin Of Dontae Morris Facing More Than 70 Felony Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, <strong>Alaina Riggins<\/strong>, 26, was arrested by Hillsborough  County deputies after a traffic stop.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, <strong>Riggins<\/strong> was stopped after failing to use a turn signal. Deputies found a handgun, 72 bullets, marijuana and crack cocaine in the vehicle. <strong>Riggins<\/strong> now faces more than 70 felony counts, including charges for each of the 72 bullets found on her.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Riggins<\/strong> is the cousin of <strong>Dontae Morris<\/strong>, who is being held in jail for the murder of five people, two of them Tampa Police officers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Riggins<\/strong> was being investigated during the summer of 2010 because of her relationship with <strong>Morris <\/strong>and she was later arrested with <strong>Morris\u2019<\/strong> brother, <strong>Dwayne Calloway<\/strong>, at a motel on drug charges.<\/p>\n<p>[private]At the time, detectives were investigating whether <strong>Riggins<\/strong> was in touch with <strong>Morris <\/strong>while he was being sought by authorities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Riggins<\/strong> is the daughter of former civilian Tampa Police employee, <strong>Carolyn Riggins<\/strong>, the aunt of <strong>Dontae Morris.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last year, Tampa Police Chief, <strong>Jane Castor<\/strong>, fired <strong>Carolyn<\/strong> <strong>Riggins<\/strong> after an internal investigation found she hindered the search for <strong>Morris<\/strong> by not revealing her daughter\u2019s relationship with the suspect.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alaina Riggins<\/strong> is currently being held with her bond in excess of $614,000. [\/private]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Alaina Riggins, 26, was arrested by Hillsborough County deputies after a traffic stop. According to reports, Riggins was stopped after failing to use a turn signal. Deputies found a handgun, 72 bullets, marijuana and crack cocaine in the vehicle. Riggins now faces more than 70 felony counts, including charges for each of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}