Posted on 12/22/2017 10:47:05 AM PST by BenLurkin
Sheriff's deputies in York County, Neb., stopped a pickup truck on Tuesday when they noticed it driving over the center line and the driver failing to signal. During the traffic stop, deputies noticed a strong smell of raw marijuana, the sheriff's department says. Patrick Jiron, 80, and Barbara Jiron, 83, said they were from northern California and were en route to Boston and Vermont.
Deputies asked the driver, Patrick Jiron, about the odor, and he admitted to having contraband in the truck and consented to a search of the vehicle.
With the help of the county's canine unit, deputies searched the Toyota Tacoma. When they looked under the pickup topper, deputies found 60 pounds of marijuana, as well as multiple containers of concentrated THC.
Deputies asked the driver, Patrick Jiron, about the odor, and he admitted to having contraband in the truck and consented to a search of the vehicle. With the help of the county's canine unit, deputies searched the Toyota Tacoma. When they looked under the pickup topper, deputies found 60 pounds of marijuana, as well as multiple containers of concentrated THC.
"They said the marijuana was for Christmas presents," Lt. Paul Vrbka told the York News-Times. The department estimated the street value of the pot at over $3oo,000. The Jirons now face felony charges of possession of marijuana with the intent to deliver and no drug tax stamp. (Nebraska law requires marijuana dealers to purchase drug tax stamp from its Department of Revenue as evidence that the state's drug tax has been paid.) For the friends and family in New England who expected a bag of weed in their stocking this year, it looks like it won't be a green Christmas, after all.
Better leave out a few extra cookies for Santa if you’re going put all that pot under the tree :-)
No tax stamp???
Throw the book at them!
Bet you a cookie that the guy had a gray ponytail.
Bet you a cookie that the guy had a gray ponytail.
First thing that came to mind ,LOL
Wow. No doubt that would have been a very profitable trip, trip, trip,my rip. We’re the drivers stone Do?
Pot Stamp you’re asking for a Boston Pot Party LOL
We just smiled and waved.
Sittin’ on that sack of seeds.
That ought to wake up ole Rip Van Sessions....he likes drug busts, especially interstate transportation ones.
Tell you what, he’s got better hair than I do!
What are they going to do to these people? 60lbs is a lot of pot, were in kingpin territory. They are too old for prison and this will ruin them financially. Liberals from califonia, they should have been isolated in the 70s before they could contaminate other states. Look what they did to Colorado.
Hehehe...someone sent me a link to that song a few months back, hadn’t heard it in years! Made me grin...:)
He’s got better hair than my three sons do———BALD IS BEAUTIFUL.
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We just smiled and waved.
Sittin’ on that sack of seeds.
>><<
Lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyQi-1Z2tN8
I bet they didn’t expect to be spending Christmas in a county jail in central Nebraska! At least they’ll be treated decently here.
They will, that’s the purpose of Nebraska’s drug tax law. Paying the tax offers no immunity to criminal prosecution so it’s kind of an IQ test. But if you get caught with pot and haven’t paid the tax, a whole set of other penalties apply with different standards of evidence, etc. Including fines and confiscation of your stuff. It gives LEOs another tool to get drug dealers with in addition to the criminal laws.
Well, if they are older than me they qualify as elderly. :-)
The first image I conjured up was Tommy Chong with long white hair and a long gray beard, and then the next one was that famous car scene from Up in Smoke with the car Hilarious!
“Bet you a cookie that the guy had a gray ponytail.”
But not driving a VW Microbus. Strange.
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