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.
You should chose your words more carefully. ;P
You're awful.
Oh my gosh... oops.
This debate is pointless. Serious couch potatoes wrangle over Wilma or Betty
If you're going that route, the debate would be Daphne, Velma, or Judy Jetson?
Or maybe Carol Brady vs Shirley Partridge?
How about Billie Jo, Bobbie Jo, Betty Jo, or Ellie Mae?
I think I'd have to say Ellie Mae.
Its Betty all the way! Although Ann Margrock was hotter than hell. Sounds like it is time for a who’s the hottest cartoon babe list.
Daphne, Carol, Bobbie Jo. Next :)
And everyone always thought the professor was the smart one! If I get busted at age 69, I hope to hell I could come up with an alibi half as good as that one. From the television series, we clearly know she couldn't act a lick, but I would have never guessed she could ad lib that well.
In all honesty I think there should be an age, after which, you are immune from drug laws. What purpose does it serve to prosecute 69 year old women for smoking dope?
A little birdie told me that she actually did get somebody to testify that the pot wasn't hers. She's just naturally that, ah...happy... And I'm Little Bo Peep.
Or, for Trekkie couch potatoes (like me), Lt. Uhura or Yeoman Rand. :)
Much better.
“How about Billie Jo, Bobbie Jo, Betty Jo”
All I know is that I won’t go drinking from that water tower.
She should NOT be driving high/drunk..that goes without saying...but the fact she’s still enjoying the chronic at 69??!! You GO Mary Ann!
Bailey Quarters (Jan Smithers) wins, hands down.
Mark
Jan Smithers...
Gives new meaning to “a tale of a fateful trip...”
ha!
And we all know why Uncle Joe was “moving kind of slow” at the Junction, don’t we?
Innocent! She’s Mary Ann for God’s sake.
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