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Ice cream truck driver arrested on suspicion of selling pot to kids (Mexican national)
themonitor.com ^ | o5/24/07 | Michael Barnett

Posted on 05/25/2007 6:43:30 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3

MISSION — For some elementary school students, the familiar ice cream truck jingle apparently meant an easy way to buy drugs.

Police are stunned that children in the third grade were buying pot from an ice cream truck driver, whom they arrested Thursday afternoon.

The driver, police said, was selling $5 and $10 bags of marijuana to students coming out of O’Grady Elementary School at the intersection of Farm-to-Market Road 495 and Holland Avenue.

Customers included third-, fourth- and fifth-graders.

“I can’t visualize any of these kids that age smoking marijuana,” Mission police Chief Leo Longoria said. “It’s a scary thought, but that’s the info we received.”

The driver, a Mexican national, was arrested after police received tips from children about the drug sales.

“What an idiot,” Longoria said of the driver. “But the important thing about this is kids reported it.”

The driver is expected to be arraigned today on drug possession charges. Police are still weighing the possibility of bringing drug distribution charges against the man because they did not catch him selling to anyone.

Police arrested the driver about 4:15 p.m. Thursday several blocks away from the elementary school.

They seized the truck, several bags of marijuana and, presumably, a whole lot of ice cream. ____


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; criminalaliens; icecream; immigrantlist; immigration; mexicannational; mission; sellingpot; texas
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To: massgopguy

Oh? They went from “illegal immigrants” to “migrant workers” to “undocumented workers” to “guest workers” and now Mexican nationals?

Oh, brother!

Deport ALL illegal immigrants, no special cases, no lawsuits, no “anchor baby” excuses to prevent deportation. Do it NOW!


41 posted on 05/25/2007 7:57:50 AM PDT by El Gran Salseron (The World-Famous, popular DJ and FReeper Canteen Certified, Equal-Opportunity, Male-Chauvinist-Pig!)
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To: JB in Whitefish
.........how about a nice tidy HANGING...???

...or AMNESTY.

42 posted on 05/25/2007 7:59:49 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: massgopguy

We’re only good at Seinfeld trivia in this house ;-)


43 posted on 05/25/2007 8:02:22 AM PDT by NordP (The greatest gift God can give us is LIFE. The greatest gift man can give to another is FREEDOM.)
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To: massgopguy

We’re only good at Seinfeld trivia in this house ;-)


44 posted on 05/25/2007 8:02:22 AM PDT by NordP (The greatest gift God can give us is LIFE. The greatest gift man can give to another is FREEDOM.)
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To: weegee

You rang?


45 posted on 05/25/2007 8:13:11 AM PDT by Daffynition (If all the cars in the USA were placed end to end, it would probably be Memorial Day Weekend.)
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To: TornadoAlley3
This story reminds me of the old film tht was in my dad's collection ..."Good Humor Man" ... full of slapstick comedy.


46 posted on 05/25/2007 8:14:56 AM PDT by Daffynition (If all the cars in the USA were placed end to end, it would probably be Memorial Day Weekend.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Hey Jorge........and the rest of the gutless slugs in Washington.........just another case of doing a job, Americans won’t do...............


47 posted on 05/25/2007 8:15:20 AM PDT by newcthem (George Bush.......Making America Safer............FOR MEXICAN CRIMINALS!)
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To: weegee

” “Mr. Lehrer’s muse is not fettered by such inhibiting factors as - taste”.”

He doesn’t seem to be much in awe of meter, either. The lines scan with the smoothness of a parking lot full of speed bumps.


48 posted on 05/25/2007 9:14:38 AM PDT by gcruse
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To: TornadoAlley3

Just doing the job that...nevermind.


49 posted on 05/25/2007 9:16:31 AM PDT by Recovering Hermit (There's another old saying Senator..."Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.")
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

Except that I was NOT “joking”.


50 posted on 05/25/2007 9:40:14 AM PDT by JB in Whitefish
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To: JB in Whitefish

Didn’t think that you were.

(Was shorthandedly making the point about what our president is offering to illegal immigrants without justification.)


51 posted on 05/25/2007 9:43:51 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: UCFRoadWarrior
Yep Mex National is a PC way to say “ilegal”. If he was a US citizen there would be no description like that...or if he was legal.

Do you really think the police -- let alone the press -- can confirm someone's immigration status within a day of an arrest? The absence of some details in an initial story isn't always proof of political correctness or some sort of "MSM blackout." Most of the time, they're omitting details they don't have.

Is this guy an illegal? Most probably. But most probably isn't good enough for the police to make a statement or for a reporter to put it in print.

52 posted on 05/25/2007 9:50:51 AM PDT by ReignOfError (`)
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To: TornadoAlley3; gubamyster; HiJinx
The driver is expected to be arraigned today on drug possession charges. Police are still weighing the possibility of bringing drug distribution charges against the man because they did not catch him selling to anyone.

Well, fine. If he doesn't get a felony, under this nonsense senate bill, we will provide him with a lawyer and amnesty.

Sweet deal, eh?

53 posted on 05/25/2007 10:02:51 AM PDT by AuntB (" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
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To: KoRn; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
Very Good Humor man ping!


54 posted on 05/25/2007 10:20:34 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("I AM A SEXY SHOELESS GOD OF WAR!!!" --http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0439.html)
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To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; ..

ping


55 posted on 05/25/2007 10:22:31 AM PDT by gubamyster
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To: TornadoAlley3

We now we know what the “Flavor of the Month” was...


56 posted on 05/25/2007 10:41:49 AM PDT by GreenLanternCorps (Past the schoolhouse / Take it slow / Let the little / Shavers grow / BURMA-SHAVE)
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To: NordP
http://www.myspace.com/iscreamuscream
57 posted on 05/25/2007 1:27:12 PM PDT by weegee (Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
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To: upsdriver

I thought with sufficent “stash” you were already assumed to be “distributing”.


58 posted on 05/25/2007 1:28:27 PM PDT by weegee (Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
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To: weegee

There you go! Using logic!tsk tsk!!lol That kind of thinking is uncalled for in this day and age! If we start arresting people for selling drugs, the next thing we are going to want to arrest them for entering our country illegally!


59 posted on 05/25/2007 1:35:27 PM PDT by upsdriver (DUNCAN HUNTER FOR PRESIDENT!!!!)
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To: upsdriver

Well there are exceptions to ever rule. Willie Nelson had enough pot and mushrooms in his posession on his tour bus to meet the “distribution” threshold and got a slap on the wrist.

I guess a heavy substance abuse problem and celebrity status can be used as a defense. “No that’s all for ME!”


60 posted on 05/25/2007 2:19:32 PM PDT by weegee (Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
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