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Woman Charged After Car Containing 229 Pounds of Weed Runs Out of Gas, Police Say
CBS47 ^ | April 18, 2022 | Michelle Ewing

Posted on 04/18/2022 5:17:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A woman is facing a drug charge after police discovered 229 pounds of marijuana inside the car she abandoned on a Tennessee bridge when the vehicle ran out of gas, authorities said.

According to WHBQ-TV, Memphis police arrested Catherine Mardesich, 54, on a charge of possession of a controlled substance in connection with the incident, which occurred Sunday.

In a Facebook post Monday, the department said Tennessee Department of Transportation and Arkansas State Police responded at 3:30 p.m. Sunday to a report of an abandoned Chevrolet Suburban on the Interstate 55 bridge. Authorities moved the vehicle, which had been struck on the bridge, to the nearby Metal Museum so officers could complete the crash report.

“While on the scene, the driver, Catherine Mardesich, returned. The car had been left due to being out of gas,” the post read. “She was advised that the vehicle was to be inventoried and towed. She advised that officers could not go inside the car.”

Officers then approached the car and “smelled raw marijuana coming from the vehicle,” according to the post.

While searching the vehicle, officers found $17,800 and boxes containing 229 pounds of marijuana, WHBQ reported.

Police arrested Mardesich and took her to Jail East in Shelby County, the department said.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; drugs; marijuana; outofgas; stoned; tennessee; weed
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To: nickcarraway

Must have been good weed 🤪


41 posted on 04/18/2022 7:39:30 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: LFOD
"Peruvian Marching Dust"


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42 posted on 04/18/2022 7:47:01 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: NWFree

Maybe she sampled too much of the product or inhaled something from it. Presumably the first thing you want to do is make sure you have gas in that business. Maybe in the middle of nowhere and far from the nearest gas station.


43 posted on 04/18/2022 8:45:32 PM PDT by xxqqzz
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To: Bikkuri

Cocaine. P. J. O’Rourke once did a piece for “Rolling Stone,” into which be crammed every pseudonym for coke...” Peruvian marching powder” was a favorite. It concluded “ Never call it ‘tootskie.’”


44 posted on 04/18/2022 9:42:37 PM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: nickcarraway

as the police said, laughingly, as they took her away, “Hey lady, you’re gonna need a bigger gas tank”.


45 posted on 04/19/2022 1:00:25 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: nickcarraway

as the police said, laughingly, as they took her away, “Hey lady, you’re gonna need a bigger gas tank”.


46 posted on 04/19/2022 1:00:37 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: gundog

Ah.. thank you ;^)


47 posted on 04/19/2022 1:03:17 AM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: nickcarraway

where is cheech and chong when you need them


48 posted on 04/19/2022 1:59:43 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: nickcarraway; windcliff

Maybe she thought when the gas gauge hit E that meant it would change over to run on electric. It is also possible she mistook the term hi-test (premium gas) for high test (how many joints can you smoke and still drive?)


49 posted on 04/19/2022 3:41:04 AM PDT by I Drive Too Fast
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To: Mogger
...give the pot back to her.

After the cops take their share.

50 posted on 04/19/2022 3:54:20 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Bob Dylan: "Propaganda, all is phony")
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Cruella Deville


51 posted on 04/19/2022 4:42:27 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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