By Mari Robyn Jones
The Tampa Tribune

RUSKIN - For the past several months, authors Dennis and Elise Carr have been traveling the country in a 45-foot RV with their two dogs to promote a book for young adults.

Staying at an RV park in Ruskin on Monday, Dennis Carr was visited by Hillsborough County sheriff’s detectives after a park office manager opened a package filled with cocaine.

Detectives had gathered enough identifying information from the package to determine that the sender meant it for Dennis Carr, a sheriff’s spokeswoman said.

He denied it, said spokeswoman Debbie Carter. He was arrested Monday afternoon after detectives said they found cocaine, marijuana and drug paraphernalia in the RV during a search that Dennis Carr consented to.

He was not charged for the package, but the sheriff’s office is still investigating.

The officer manager at Tampa South RV Resort received the package, which had an incorrect label, and decided to open it to track down its owner, Carter said. About 2 grams of cocaine was inside the package.

Because the couple regularly travels, Dennis Carr has his mail forwarded to him, Carter said.

Carr, 59, was released from jail early Tuesday after posting $3,000 bail, jail records show.

On Tuesday, the Carrs did not return phone calls or answer their RV, which is splashed with a picture of a girl and the title of their book, “Welcome to Wahoo.”

Dennis Carr wrote the screenplay for the movie “Undercover Kid,” which was released in 1996, according to the Internet Movie Database and Carrs’ Web site.

The couple’s Web site also says he writes and directs a radio comedy show called “Las Vegas Wired.”

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