The easy bust happened after two patrolmen parked their cars in each lane of northbound Interstate 95 near Santee, SC, early Sunday morning following a series of wrecks that had tied up traffic, Highway Patrol Capt. Chris Williamson said.
A Chevrolet Malibu going about 70 mph hit one of the cruisers, causing minor injuries to the trooper behind the wheel, Williamson said.
Officers found two large duffel bags in the trunk with 43 pounds of marijuana in plastic bags, worth more than $150,000, Orangeburg County deputy Warren Pendry said.
The 54-year-old driver from Daytona Beach Shores, Florida, was charged with driving under the influence, possession of cocaine and trafficking marijuana, authorities said.
Don’t try to drive when you’re high on llello, dude!
At least if he was stoned on weed he would only have been going 20 mph when he crashed into the cop.
If there are 43 pounds of Ganja, and 16 ounces in each pound, that means 688 ounces…. now, $150,000 divded by 688, that means the cops are paying roughly $218 an ounce! Now I can’t say I am really up the cost of weed in the US, but that seems awfully expensive to me! Or have I got my sums wrong?
Thankfully dumb crooks make them easier to catch.
Now I can’t say I am really up the cost of weed in the US, but that seems awfully expensive to me! Or have I got my sums wrong?
One thing to remember when dealing with ‘street price’, purchases in bulk (e.g. a pound or several ounces) is always at the HIGHEST PROFIT.
That is, if the final price for a half ounce is, say $70 (to pick a number at random 😉 ) they will always use that price, even though a full ounce may be 100.
J/P=?
I wonder why the Highway Patrol “parked their cars in each lane”, thus blocking the whole road. Isn’t there a shoulder where they could have parked instead? That would leave the highway still open to traffic (and be safer for them, too).
I commonly see that; officers responding to an accident, instead of parking on the shoulder or behind each other in the first lane, each park in a separate lane, thus blocking a lot more of the road than they need to. Which leads to traffic backups for miles, and likely more accidents further back in that mess. Don’t they have any consideration for the people that they are supposed to “protect and serve”?
And Drug Enforcement Cops, or news media, commonly exaggerate the value of the drugs they seize–it makes them look better in their reports. I once pointed out to the local newspaper that they had 2 drug busts reported on different pages of the paper, but calculating the price/ounce showed a great difference in price, just a few miles apart.
Drug war cops always inflate the street value of any dope they seize. It not only looks good when it’s time to justify their expanding budgets, it helps them put (often nonviolent) users in jail for longer periods. Which looks good for the prosecutors as well as the cops.
Prisons – they’re a Growth Industry! Yay.
$200 bucks and change per z is cheap depending where you are in the US, it goes much higher (no pun intended). The average would be more at $350.00 with a the high end at $500 or more.