Posted on 03/11/2008 1:43:51 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
DRIGGS, Idaho - Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on "Gilligan's Island," is serving six months' unsupervised probation after allegedly being caught with marijuana in her car.
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.
Under a plea agreement, three misdemeanor counts — driving under the influence, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance — were dropped.
On Oct. 18, Teton County sheriff's Deputy Joseph Gutierrez arrested Wells as she was driving home from a surprise birthday party that was held for her. According to the sheriff's office report, Gutierrez pulled Wells over after noticing her swerve and repeatedly speed up and slow down. When Gutierrez asked about a marijuana smell, Wells said she'd just given a ride to three hitchhikers and had dropped them off when they began smoking something. Gutierrez found half-smoked joints and two small cases used to store marijuana.
The 69-year-old Wells, founder of the Idaho Film and Television Institute and organizer of the region's annual family movie festival called the Spud Fest, then failed a sobriety test.
Wells' lawyer, Ron Swafford, said that a friend of Wells' testified that he'd left a small amount of marijuana in the vehicle after using it that day, and that Wells was unaware of it. Swafford also said several witnesses were prepared to testify that Wells had very little to drink at the party and was not intoxicated when she left. He said she was swerving on the road because she was trying to find the heater controls in her new car.
Absolutely. LOL! Look at that face!
Even at 69... NOT GUILTY!!
but her friends say it was their weed and she had very little to drink and she was looking for the heat knob in the car!
i love this kinda stuff. believe what we say, not what you see.
just damn me ping
For 69 years old, not guilty.
Ginger was a bad influence.
No, it was the heater controls. The hitchhikers keep moving them.
“Miss, I need you to tilt our head back and touch your nose”
“What? He knows I am too stoned to do that. Why is he asking me to even try?”
“What?”
“Oh I’m sorry. Was I speaking out loud? Do you have a snack machine at the station?”
Eeww.
NO! Not Mary Ann!
Oh well. Maybe she has cancer????? :^(
You guys are really grossing me out here.
I think I’m gonna have to hang out on the thread about teen girls with STDs instead...
Cajuns prefer brunettes! ..this one anyway.
Well geez, c’mon, I mean, she spent how many years on that island after thinking it was just going to be a little ol’ 3 hour boat ride??? With all kinds of crazy things going on, coconut radios and cannibals and stuff? And all the while worrying about the cows and chickens back home, how they were doing. And then finding out they were all dead because her aunt and uncle died while she was gone and no one thought about her farm? And the fields all overgrown and the barn roof collapsed and not a soul to help her? Who wouldn’t want to escape from that every now and then?
MaryAnn-way hotter. Plus, as my husband pointed out, she’d always feed you good and take care of you, not like Ginger who would have to be taken care of.
Jan. Better than Loni.
I knew there was something up with those coconut cream pies!
Five days is nothing after all those years on the Island.
This is unfortunate. I seriously always found Dawn Wells to be the looker of the first order among the Gilligan cast. Great Caesar’s Ghost!!! That lass was(is) gorgeous.
I vote for Jeannie!
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