Posted on 05/16/2006 11:26:32 AM PDT by evets
The owner of a pecan farm near where Ramonce Taylor was arrested on a drug charge said Monday that the University of Texas running back and his friends crashed an outdoor college graduation party for his daughter.
At about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Stewart said, his son and several party guests complained to him that about seven uninvited guests were trying to sell drugs and he asked them to leave, he said.
A short time later, Bell County sheriff's deputies arrested Taylor, 20, at a nearby convenience store and accused him of possessing five pounds of marijuana.
Taylor called Bell County sheriff's deputies at about 1:30 a.m. reporting a fight involving as many as 100 people at the farm, according to the affidavit. He complained that the window of his vehicle was broken at the pecan farm. When deputies responded to Taylor's call, he told them that people at the party "provoked a fight and demanded that he leave," the affidavit says.
While deputies were talking to Taylor, they learned from fellow deputies who were by that time at the pecan farm that Taylor was being accused of threatening to return with a gun, the affidavit said. When Taylor consented to a search of his vehicle a 2004 Chevy Tahoe deputies found 5.3 pounds of marijuana in a bag stitched with "Big 12 Conference."
Taylor's lawyer, Robert "Buck" Harris of Killeen, said that if his client knew there were drugs in the car, he would not have called Bell County sheriff's deputies or allowed them to search his vehicle.
"He's not playing hide the ball. If he's carrying five pounds of marijuana, either he's the stupidest person alive or thinks he's bulletproof," Harris said after the brief arraignment hearing in Belton.
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What's that reason? Does it apply any less to the legal drug alcohol?
You are picking a fight with the wrong person my dear. I'm pro legalization.
I get the Aggie part.
Why Texas Aggies when there are Texas Longhorns?
The difference is that there are the Florida Gators and the Florida STATE Seminoles.
Are A&M fans afraid of their own school's name?
Texas Aggies?!?
Heck, if they got Johnny Cochran there even *I* would have to vote for an aquittal!!
I meant to say Al Sharpton since Johnny is dead, but I was thinking about what a friend had said earlier - "If the backpack don't fit, you must acquit" - you can picture him saying that, can't you?
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