Cops: Woman charged with possession of drugs she ‘found’

VENICE — A Venice-area woman brought an additional charge on herself by telling deputies she had found some drugs.

Teal Lee Rizzo, 35, 5700 block of Oxalis Road, is in the Sarasota County Jail on bond of $12,500 facing charges of domestic battery and possession of a controlled substance (meth) without a prescription. Through the Public Defender’s Office, she has waived arraignment and pleaded not guilty.

According to a Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office probable cause affidavit, on March 21 a deputy responded to a report of a battery at a location where a family disturbance had already been reported that day…

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