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.
Old Pat Jiron had a farm.
EIEIO
And on that farm he grew some pot.
EIEIO
With a toke, toke here
And a toke, toke there
Here a toke
There a toke
Everywhere a toke, toke
Old Pat Jiron had a farm
He’s in the jailhouse now.
He said he flew up there
I had to fly up and get him down
He was about half crazy
Punishment should be house arrest + drivers license suspension. Let any visitor light up. Harmless old coots.
Its likely they should just give their house to the kids, don’t hire a lawyer and enjoy prison food.
Only thing that surprised me about this story was that it was not in Utah.
That is a square on our version of Live PD Bingo...
Bet she has tats.
Wildwood weed...beat the hell out of sniffing burlap.
Just how big is the trunk?
There has to be more to this story. That is a house worth of pot. Even in California. I think these people are distributing. They are mules for someone. No way this is just casual usage. I say throw the book at them and offer a small sentence if they tell you who was buying it.
The feral government will have its pound of flesh.
listened to that in dads pickup on 8-track LOL
Lol
And a bald scalp ; )
Shoulda FedEx’d it.
Sixty pounds ain’t personal use
I was going to comment about aging hippies, but I did the math and realized that these folks are too old for that. Aging Beatniks? Kids too young for WWII and too old for Vietnam, but skipped Korea. I guess they just got stoned and they missed it.
Poor guy needs a nap....the least of his worries now.
There is another reason why I moved out of N Calif. Wish they would give a more pinpoint address for these 2 ‘transporters’.
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