Tampa driver took kratom before fatal crash, cops say. Now he’s charged with homicide

Tampa Bay Times ·
United States News

Seventeen minutes before he caused a crash that killed a woman at a downtown Tampa bus station, authorities say, Robert Joseph Best used a chatbot to research kratom. Best, then 37, asked about the “strongest kratom on the market” and was seeking “the strongest effect,” court documents state. He uploaded a photo of a product called “Heat Full Spectrum Kratom Extract.” The chatbot told Best that…

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