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‘This isn’t Toronto,’ sheriff says of Florida mayor’s drug charges

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford leaves his office at City Hall in Toronto November 19, 2013. REUTERS/Aaron Harris

A Florida sheriff that arrested a local mayor on drug charges this week has coined an unlikely slogan about politicians and crime: "This isn't Toronto."

Ouch.

Bradford County, Fla. may have a Wild West-style poster on its website linking to the county's most wanted criminals, but the land of outlaws of the political variety — according to a comment from the sheriff this week — is the city of Rob Ford.

The Bradford County Sheriff's office posted a statement to its Facebook page on Monday describing the arrest of Barry Layne Moore, the mayor of Hampton, Fla., on charges of buying and selling oxycodone.

“This isn’t Toronto. We will not tolerate illegal drug activity, in my jurisdiction, by anyone to include our elected officials," said a quote within the statement from Sheriff Gordon Smith.

Rob Ford's admission that he has used crack cocaine and the police investigation surrounding the entire debacle has made headlines worldwide as Canadians stare slack-jawed, or by some accounts, secretly relish their new-found rebel status. Ford has not been charged with any crime and none of the allegations against him in the police report have been proven in court.

But Ford has been the butt of late night comedy jokes, the subject of a song by Will Ferrell in character as Ron Burgundy, and now, finally, even international law enforcement is wagging a finger at Toronto.