"Whatya gonna do when they come for you!!!"
Just damn.
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Posted on 01/25/2004 3:22:27 PM PST by Stew Padasso
Ex-Dallas officer jailed in drug case
E. Texas troopers find 100 pounds of marijuana in his car
January 23, 2004, Friday SECOND EDITION
A former Dallas police narcotics officer was in an East Texas jail Thursday after being stopped with 100 pounds of marijuana and about 2.2 pounds of cocaine in his car trunk, authorities said.
State troopers pulled over Terrance A. King, 39, after he passed too close to an emergency vehicle on Interstate 30 in New Boston, about 25 miles west of Texarkana.
Mr. King, who is now a police officer in Memphis, Tenn., displayed a Dallas police badge and Memphis badge and told troopers that he was working off-duty, said Lisa Block, a Texas Department of Public Safety spokeswoman. "Troopers observed signs of nervousness, mood swings and conflicting travel plans," she said. "We don't have any information to believe that he was carrying these illegal substances, the drugs, as part of his employment."
In the trunk of Mr. King's car, troopers found two suitcases and a duffel bag packed with bricks of marijuana, Ms. Block said. They also found bricks of cocaine stuffed in the spare-tire compartment and a pistol. The drugs were worth $ 200,000, Ms. Block said.
Mr. King joined the Dallas Police Department in 1991, said Sgt. Gil Cerda, a Dallas police spokesman. Department records show that he was an officer in the southeast patrol division and a senior corporal in the narcotics unit before quitting the department in 1999.
Details about his internal affairs record or why he left Dallas were unavailable. After leaving, Mr. King joined the Memphis Police Department, where he has been a patrol officer since late 1999.
Mr. King was taken to the Bowie County Jail and charged with possession of a controlled substance, according to the DPS. A Memphis police spokeswoman said she could not confirm whether Mr. King was transporting the drugs as part of police business. Mr. King could not be reached for comment. The Commercial Appeal in Memphis contributed to this report.
The wildwood flower grew wild on the farm,
And we never knowed what it was called.
Some said it was a flower and some said it was weed,
I never gave it much thought ......
One day I was out there talking to my brother,
Reached down for a weed to chew on,
Things got fuzzy and things got blurry,
And then everything was gone!
Didn't know what happened,
But I knew it beat the hell out of sniffin' burlap.
I come to and my brother was there,
And he said, What's wrong with your eyes?
I said, I don't know, I was chewing on a weed.
He said, Let me give it a try.
We spent the rest of that day and most of that night,
Trying to find my brother, Bill.
Caught up with him, 'bout six o'clock the next morning,
Naked, swinging on the wind mill!
He said he flew up there.
I had to fly up there and bring him down,
He was about half crazy .....
The very next day we picked a bunch of them weeds,
And put 'em in the sun to dry.
Then we mashed 'em up and chopped 'em up,
And put 'em in the corncob pipe.
Smokin' that wildwood flower got to be a habit,
We didn't see no harm.
We thought it was kind of handy,
To take a trip and never leave the farm!
All good things gotta come to an end,
And it's the same with the wildwood weed.
One day this feller from Washington came by,
And he spied them and turned white as a sheet.
Then they dug and they burned,
And they burned and they dug,
And they killed all our cute little weeds.
Then they drove away,
We just smiled and waved ..........
Sittin' there on that sack of seeds!
Y'all come back now, ya hear?
"Whatya gonna do when they come for you!!!"
Just damn.
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Surely as a cop, he knew his "rights", so why did he let them search his vehicle?
Maybe Terrance fit a profile?
Maybe somebody gave up on trying to get anything done through the Memphis *Crimestoppers* tip line, and called the right honest cop pal in Texas instead.
Once Terrance would have crossed into Arkansas on his way back to Tennessee, he'd have been home free.
That's a very conservative number to use. By the usual standards, the blow should be about half that, and the pot about twice that.
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