Tag: MARIJUANA
Man tries to trade cannabis for a car, ends up in jail
ALBANY, Ore. — Marijuana is legal in Oregon, but you can’t barter it for a car.
Police in Albany, Oregon, said Tuesday a car dealer posted a Mazda SUV for sale on an online marketplace on Friday. A man contacted the dealer and offered to trade cannabis for the car.
Matthew Franks, 38, of Independence, Oregon, showed up at a parking-lot rendezvous site that evening, expecting to meet the car seller.
Instead, police were waiting for him.
Police spokesman Brad Liles says Franks was arrested and put into the Linn County Jail. Liles says police seized 5.4 pounds of marijuana, less than the agreed-upon amount.
It wasn’t immediately clear if Franks had an attorney.
Though marijuana is legal in Oregon, sales are regulated and those in the business must be licensed.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/11/14/man-tries-to-trade-cannabis-for-a-car-ends-up-in-jail/
Duo busted after allegedly selling weed treats at church — including cereal, brownies and puddings
For the love of pot!
Two women were busted Friday on drug charges after one allegedly sold weed edibles at a church in Savannah, Georgia, according to the Chatham-Savannah Counter Narcotics Team.
Ebony Cooper, 28, was reportedly openly hawking various treats — including cereal, brownies and puddings — that contained marijuana at a church event for entrepreneurs, authorities said.
Officials said she advertised the illegal baked goods on social media prior to the event.
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Undercover agents bought several items from Cooper then followed her to 26-year-old Leah Pressley’s car, which they searched, according to officials.
The search allegedly turned up a large number of pot edibles, more than $1,000 in cash and a loaded gun.
Both Cooper and Pressley were arrested and booked at Chatham County Detention Center on felony drug charges, authorities said.
Toddler handed cops drugs after mom was pulled over
A 3-year-old girl got her mother and a friend into hot water during an upstate traffic stop — when she handed a state trooper drugs and paraphernalia, police said Monday.
The child was in the backseat of a 2000 Saturn when it was pulled over by cops during an “occupant-safety” checkpoint on Route 32 in New Scotland just south of Albany on Thursday afternoon, according to New York State Police.
The front-seat occupants — 26-year-old driver Scott Hill and the little girl’s mom, Megan Karl, 33 — were observed making suspicious movements, police said. When they rolled down their windows, cops could smell burning marijuana, police said.
As one trooper interviewed Hill, another checked on the child, according to the troopers.
That’s when the child — who was not properly secured — reached under the front seat and pulled out a pouch, police said. She opened it up to show the officer what was inside — marijuana, a metal marijuana grinder and a pipe, both of which had remnants of the drug, police said.
Cops also found an ashtray in the front seat containing marijuana cigarette butts, police said.
The drugs and paraphernalia apparently belonged to Hill, according to police.
Hill and Karl were arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a child. Hill was also charged with unlawful possession of marijuana, police said.
The girl was taken into the care of relatives, and child-protective services was notified of the incident.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/09/10/toddler-handed-cops-drugs-after-mom-was-pulled-over-police/
Someone ‘donated’ 5 pounds of marijuana to a Florida thrift shop
Employees at the Pines Thrift Store in Sarasota, Florida, are scratching their heads after someone left nearly 5 pounds of marijuana outside the shop last week.
Four bags of vacuum-sealed marijuana turned up inside a tote bag near the clothing drop-off area outside the store, officials with the Sarasota Police Department told Fox 13.
Inside the tote was a brown paper bag, which contained the pot.
The cops were called after an employee opened the bag and saw what was inside.
The pot weighed about 4.7 pounds and is worth an estimated $5,400, ABC News reported.
So far, no arrests have been made, according to Fox 13. However, the Sarasota Police Department sent the bags off for DNA and other testing to find out the drugs’ source.
Officials are also checking to see if surveillance footage of the area could help them in their investigation, WFTS-News reported.
https://nypost.com/2018/09/04/someone-donated-5-pounds-of-marijuana-to-a-florida-thrift-shop/
Inmates escape jail for a few hours to visit girlfriends, smoke weed then walked back to the jail
HUGO, Okla. — An Oklahoma sheriff says two inmates briefly escaped to visit their girlfriends and smoke marijuana and then walked back to the jail.
Choctaw County Sheriff Terry Park tells The Oklahoman that inmates Harley Davidson and Rakeem Lennox waited for jail staff to leave the area near their room about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday. He says the men then entered the booking room to steal a laundry room door key and fled.
The sheriff says they returned to the county jail on foot after midnight and could face additional charges.
He says both men were in jail for drug possession.
http://nypost.com/2017/10/14/inmates-escape-jail-for-a-few-hours-to-visit-girlfriends-smoke-weed/
Denver Man Sentenced to 80 Years for Fatally Shooting Teen Who Allegedly Tried to Steal Marijuana Plant From Backyard
The shooting happened last October, according to KTLA sister station KDVR in Denver.
15-year-old Keylin Mosely was shot dead and his 14-year old friend was paralyzed over what family calls a stupid teenage prank.
“The boys were trying to steal a pot plant from the backyard of an illegal grow,” said Mosley’s cousin, Salina Mosley.
Family members said they forgive the man responsible, even though he’s still claiming to be innocent.
Outside the Denver District Courthouse Wednesday, Salina described her cousin who died nearly one year ago.
“A chocolate prince with a chocolate smile,” she said. “Very quiet, very observed, very fun, loving.”
It was in the early morning hours of Oct. 9 when Mosley and his 14-year-old friend hopped a fence attempting to steal a marijuana plant from the illegal backyard grow, according to Denver police.
“Keylin was not trying to kill, he was not trying to destroy and he was not trying to hurt nobody,” Salina said.
From the home’s second story window, prosecutors say 49-year-old Keith Hammock fired shots, hitting both boys. They say Hammock then came down to the alley to check his aim.
“He did not do CPR on Keylin,” Salina alleged. “He walked in the house and said, ‘They tried to rob me.’”
The family says the 14-year-old was on the phone with 911 when he was shot a second time by Hammock, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.
Despite Hammock’s conviction, in Wednesday’s sentencing hearing he maintained his innocence, telling the judge he is the true victim and that he was not the one who fired the shots.
“We forgive him because we have to. We forgive him but life goes on, he knows what he did. He knows what happened that night. Keylin is gone,” Salina said, adding, all that matters is that justice has finally been served.
“He has to deal with what he did. When he comes to terms, that’s on him but we are moving on,” she said.
Hammock addressed the court before sentencing and said he suffered from ineffective counsel, a biased judge and a manufactured conviction. He said he will appeal his case.
Man arrested for trying to hide weed in bushes outside courthouse
SANFORD, N.C. — A North Carolina man has been arrested and charged with trying to hide marijuana in the bushes at a courthouse before a hearing on a possible probation violation.
Local media outlets reported that Lee County Sheriff Tracy Carter said 21-year-old Teon Shamal La’Shane Douglas of Sanford was arrested Monday after deputies saw him putting marijuana and a cellphone and some other items in the bushes at the courthouse.
The sheriff said narcotics officers saw Douglas put about 15 grams of marijuana in the bushes at the courthouse in Sanford.
Carter said Douglas was arrested after the probation hearing and charged with felony possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia.
It was not known if Douglas has an attorney on the latest charges.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/10/05/man-arrested-for-trying-to-hide-weed-in-bushes-outside-courthouse/
“I failed my drug test because of my weave” : de Blasio detail cop
An NYPD sergeant who once worked in First Lady Chirlane McCray’s personal security detail has coiffed-up quite an excuse after testing positive for marijuana — she’s claiming the department mistakenly tested a strand from her human-hair weave. The hair-brained claim is the latest bid by Sgt. Tracy Gittens to keep her job after a random drug test came up positive for pot and she was pulled from overseeing security at Gracie Mansion, sources tell The Post.
The 13-year department veteran — who has been on paid desk duty in Queens since this winter and is awaiting a departmental trial — insists that when she was tested, technicians unknowingly collected strands of human hair from her weave.
They snipped from the back of her head, where she couldn’t see, sources said she is claiming — and had they tested her actual hair, it would have been clean of drugs.
“She doesn’t smoke marijuana and she’s unaware how it may have gotten into her system,” one police source told The Post. “That’s why she’s thinking it may have been the weave.”
Other colleagues say it’s tuft to believe.
“Oh stop; it doesn’t even pass the laugh test,” scoffed one police source. “That’s one of the lamest excuses I’ve ever heard. What people will do to save their jobs is pathetic.”
Another cop said the sergeant should have said she was wearing a weave at the test site, if she was concerned.
“She should have said upfront that is not my real hair so they could take the hair from somewhere else. I’ve heard every excuse, but those tests are 100 percent accurate and I tend not to believe her story.”
Gittens did not respond to requests to interview; her lawyer, John D’Alessandro, also declined to comment.
She’s not the first cop to attempt a crazy-sounding dodge after testing positive for pot. In 2006, an anti-terror detective, Anthony Chiofalo, claimed his wife had laced his meatballs with marijuana without telling him in hopes that a positive drug test would force him into retirement.
The “spacey meatball” defense failed utterly. Chiofalo was fired; two years later, he lost a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit that claimed the firing was “arbitrary, capricious, unreasonable and unconstitutional.”
via: http://nypost.com/2017/09/17/i-failed-my-drug-test-because-of-my-weave-de-blasio-detail-cop/
FL Woman arrested for leaving 2-year-old boy with HOMELESS baby-sitter while she traveled out of state
A Florida woman was arrested after she told police that she left a little boy in the care of a homeless baby-sitter because she needed to make a quick trip out of town.
Tampa Police were called to an apartment building near Busch Gardens following reports that a child was outside unattended.
When officers arrived they found a 2-year-old boy sitting outside an apartment door with a blanket, sippy cup and half-eaten Lunchable, a police report states.
When deputies went inside the apartment, they found a computer mouse with an attached cord tied to a bedroom door to keep it secure. Authorities said the door had enough space for a small child to get in and out. Inside the bedroom was a cheese snack, a jug of iced tea, a Gatorade and pull-up diapers.
Police believe the child had been outside by himself for a few hours.
According to the report, 22-year-old Cotisha Long-Green was supposed to be looking after the child but she was in another state. Long-Green, who is the guardian of the boy, said she had to catch a flight early in the morning on Aug. 21 because she had a court hearing in Illinois. She didn’t return until late on Aug. 22. Long-Green said that she asked a homeless woman known as “Fe Fe,” or Felicia, to look after the child while she was gone. Long-Green said she had met Felicia on the street and let her nap at her apartment a few times.
According to the report, Long-Green didn’t know Felicia’s last name or a phone number she could be reached at. Long-Green also told police that she suspected Felicia was an addict.
“She knows for certain that Felicia smokes marijuana,” the report stated.
Authorities said Long-Green’s cousin lives nearby but she never asked her cousin to watch the child. She also never told the boy’s mother or his family members that she had to leave town.
According to neighbors, they have never seen a woman fitting Felicia’s description going in and out of Long-Green’s apartment. Tampa police spokesman Steve Hegarty told the Daily News that police have not been able to track down Felicia and the boy is now with the Florida Department of Children and Families.