By Shelley Rossetter, Times Staff Writer
Sunday, January 23, 2011
TAMPA —A woman police investigated last summer for her relationship with suspected police killer Dontae Morris was arrested Sunday on 81 felony gun charges after a traffic stop.
Alaina Nichole Riggins, 26, of Seffner was being held on $614,500 bail in the Hillsborough County Jail. Among the charges, police filed one for each of the more than 70 bullets they said they found on her.
An arrest report says a Tampa officer observed a gold Toyota she was driving make repeated turns without using a signal on E Clifton Street early Sunday morning. The officer turned on his emergency lights and attempted to pull her over, but Riggins continued driving for three blocks before coming to a stop, the report said. When asked to get out of the car, Riggins refused and the officer pulled her out and took ...