Posted on 03/11/2008 11:11:47 PM PDT by Squidpup
DRIGGS, Idaho — Perhaps they should have called her Mary Jane.
A surprise birthday party for Dawn Wells, the actress who played Mary Ann on "Gilligan's Island," ended with a nearly three-hour tour of the Teton County sheriff's office and jail when the 69-year-old was caught with marijuana in her vehicle while driving home.
Wells is now serving six months' unsupervised probation for the crime. She was sentenced Feb. 29 to five days in jail, fined $410.50 and placed on probation after pleading guilty to one count of reckless driving.
The guilty plea came as part of an agreement with prosecutors in which three misdemeanor counts — driving under the influence, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance — were dropped.
The case began the night of Oct. 18, when Teton County sheriff's Deputy Joseph Gutierrez arrested Wells as she was driving home from a surprise birthday party. She posted $4,000 bond and was arraigned on the charges the following day, pleading not guilty. A trial on the matter was scheduled for March 13, but was canceled because of the plea agreement.
According to the sheriff's office report, Gutierrez pulled Wells over after noticing her swerve across the fog lines and center lines of State Highway 33 and repeatedly speed up and slow down.
"I exited my patrol vehicle and immediately was able to smell a strong odor of burning marijuana," Gutierrez wrote in his report. "As I approached the vehicle I noticed all four window (sic) of the vehicle were lowered and the female driver was not wearing a jacket." ...
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OUIL charge dropped? No mandatory 8 hour stay at the hoosegow? Must be nice.
NOT GUILTY!
Mary Ann, meet Mary Jane.
Preparing for this to be a 500-reply thread, with clever responses that will put all the joke writers for Letterman and Leno to shame.
I bet it was that damn Giligan’s fault.
Look, just because we like a little respite from the gazillion2 threads about Iraq and Spitzer and Obama and McCain and the global warming Scam and Berzerkeley and illegal aliens doesn't mean we're any less up to date.
Still SMOKIN’ hot!
What was that stupid comment Bob Denver said a few weeks ago?
We're just suggesting you see the jokes and reminiscing on that 265 post thread.
Reopen Alcatraz. See how many of the others we can bust.
I dunno. (And I'm usually tuned into whatever Bob Denver says...)
"It was almost 3 AM and I thought about calling the White House but realized if Bill didn't answer, it wasn't 2009 yet and my clocks still needed to be moved forward, you know. 'Cause I couldn't be sure it was really three AM."
"If it had been Ginger, I'd have driven her home- she's got legs that go all the way up and that red hair, I mean, who wouldn't?" "Mary Ann reminded me of my little sister when we lived in an apartment with the rest of my family. What a little b*tch. I couldn't wait to move out of there, talk about a 'three hour tour'."
"Smoking weed at 69 on her birthday? What's she gonna do when she hits 70? Heroin? Good thing we intervened 'cause in a few years when she's completed her rehab, she'll be able to lead a productive life for many more years. Her great, great, grandchildren with thank her, you know."
"You'd be surprised how many celebraties we bust on these backroads." "Some people say the borders are open and maybe terrorists are getting across but they don't even know how good we are. We'll catch them. I mean look, this lady's not even a terrorist and we caught her."
Thank you for the feedback, Jojo Gunn.
Don’t know, was it a rerun? Bob checked out in 2005, a little longer than a few weeks ago.
Not BAD for 69 years old!
I gave her a hug by proxy over the phone -- Sherwood Schwartz, the creator of Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch, was making an appearance with her, and was promoting it on a talk show. I asked him to give her a hug for me the next time he saw her. I'm sure he did it; if he's like any other red-blooded American guy, that was reason enough.
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