Woman who mailed pot to herself sentenced to more than two years ("What can 'brown' do for you?")

http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/010907/reg_010907078.shtml ^ | Tuesday, January 9, 2007 | AP

[WestTexasWend]

AMARILLO (AP) - An Amarillo woman who mailed 78 pounds of marijuana to herself was sentenced to 21/2 years in federal prison Monday.

Tiffany Joy Kelly, 28, pleaded guilty in October to one count of illegal use of a communication facility, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Dallas said in a news release. She has been in custody since her arrest in July, after a postal inspector in El Paso became suspicious of two Express Mail parcels.

A search warrant allowed officials to open the packages, which were then resealed and sent to Kelly at a motel in Amarillo.

Kelly was arrested after accepting the packages. Prosecutors said she admitted buying the marijuana and mailing it to herself so she could distribute it.

[Lucky9teen]

Dope

[RexBeach]

Sounds like Tiffany's on the right career track now.

[Renegade]

Should have mailed it to Osama Obama .

[GeorgiaDawg32]

sounds like 2 idiots I was in the service with back in '71 when I was on Guam..these guys went to thailand(!!!!!) on R&R and mailed themselves 150-200 thai sticks..they got nailed when they went to pick up the packages at base mail..

[AppyPappy]

79 pounds????? Sheesh, that was worth a chunk of change

[Nathan Zachary]

Another contestant for the 2007 Darwin award. That list is growing fast this year.

See what dope smoking does to the thought process?

[ozzymandus]

Well, that was pretty stupid. Many years ago in my college days, I heard of similar things.

[dead]

She's a dope, but now we get to buy her food, lodging, health care, education, utilities, and cable bill for a the next two and a half years, so we're dopes too.

[Old Professer]

Express mail to a motel? Now why would that get attention?

[Nathan Zachary]

Thank Liberals for making prison a soft touch.

Perhaps hard time should mean just that, and it will become a deterent once again. I'm all for bringing back the chain gangs, and having prisoners do hard labor to earn their keep and repaying society for their wrongs with something of value, like road building, making government office furnature, etc.

[DoingTheFrenchMistake]

Yeah, chain gangs for marijuana smokers, get a grip!

[2banana]

Do you know the way to Amarillo?

[The_Victor]

Yeah, chain gangs for marijuana smokers, get a grip!

From the article:

Prosecutors said she admitted buying the marijuana and mailing it to herself so she could distribute it.

She's not going to jail for being a pothead.

[dgallo51]

I don't know why anyone would take such a risk when it's so easy to find an M.D. who'll prescribe Oxy and everything under the sun…weed is for wimps:-)

[Grizzled Bear]

She gets 21/2 years in federal prison while the lawyer (Lynne Swanson?) who willfully aided terrorists got 9 months and Berger got less than a slap on the wrist.

I aint saying this dealer shouldn't be punished but it would be nice if the ones who really deserved it got a few decades to ponder their ways. I just wonder what would happen if WE went out in the streets shouting "no justice-no peace."

Probably not very much. After all; we have day jobs and families that we choose to take care of. It would still be nice if we could take back our justice system.

[motzman]

Well, I know some people who still do this all the time (in much smaller quantities) and have never been caught.

I think they're nuts, but....

[Bones75]

I feel much safer.

/sarc

[Eaker]

How long does it take to smoke 79 pounds of pot?

I wouldn't know but she might just sell some.

Dealers deserve hell.

[traviskicks]

"An Amarillo woman who mailed 78 pounds of marijuana to herself was sentenced to 21/2 years in federal prison Monday."





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