Police: 480 pounds of pot found in truck stopped in Arizona

Source: AzCentral

Arizona authorities have arrested a 35-year-old Georgia man after they say they found more than 480 pounds of marijuana in the truck he was driving north of Phoenix.

Tommy Lee Pinkins of Moultrie, Ga., was booked into the Maricopa County Jail in Phoenix on charges of possession and transportation of marijuana for sale and illegal control of an enterprise.



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Thank God he wasn't Latino. Fox would have run with it!

not really

Willie and Snoop only go for the quality stuff. They wouldn't touch that Mexican dirt weed. :evilgrin:

............Now the best shit is grown right here in the good ole USA. How times have changed since the 60's. Mexican dope could be had for $30 per oz back in the day.

I remember $10 per oz.

:sarcasm:

It was real common to pay $10 for a nice 'lid' of weed. **Sigh**

:rofl:

Is he a legal citizen and could he prove it?

Arizona's new immigration law will not require proof of US citizenship.

B. For any lawful contact made by a law enforcement official or agency of this state or a county, city, town or other political subdivision of this state where reasonable suspicion exists that the person is an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States, a reasonable attempt shall be made, when practicable, to determine the immigration status of the person. The person's immigration status shall be verified with the federal government pursuant to 8 United States code section 1373(c).

----------------WHAT THEN IS IT SAYING?
IF YOU ARE STOPPED AND THERE IS SUSPICION (AS WITH THE TRUCK DRIVER RECENTLY IN THE NEWS) SUCH AS YOU ARE MEXICAN LOOKING AND DON'T HAVE
YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE WITH YOU

THEN YOU CAN BE HELD AS HE WAS UNTIL HIS WIFE ARRIVED WITH THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE TO GET HIM FREED

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of course--- he could as you suggest NOT SHOW PROOF, but then he would probably have to wait in jail until the feds show up and ?

Which is sufficient to end the line of inquiry into a person's immigration status.

Hence, they are not proof.

You know, the "papers" we must all carry before we get behind the wheel.

Forged driver's license will work okay for getting into a club or even buying beer, but when they are checked by the state records the ruse will be uncovered.

As a perm resident alien, my DL is endorsed with this fact. Therefore my DL references the fact I have a legal document that permits me to stay in the USA, in effect "forever", but has to be renewed every 10 years as a matter of course, or until I naturalize, whichever happens first.

:rofl:

No fun in store for this poor guy. I wouldn't drive through there with one fucking joint in my car.

Actually, I wouldn't drive through there at all, ever.

Yeah, probably not....

It's technically true...

:sarcasm:

See, Arizona IS under terrorist attack -- from drug smugglers from Georgia.

;-)

Not Sheriff joe. Where was he?

Highway traffic enforcement is not in Sheriff Joe's jurisdiction.

But he couldn't keep his racist fascist megalomaniacal ass out of that one.

Help me with some math.

If 10 million smoke it daily, let's figure 4 to a joint (or a blunt or whatever the terminology du jour might be -- I haven't smoked in decades). But at 4 to a smoke, that's 2.5 million joints a day. At 30 joints per ounce (??), that's better than 80,000 ounces a day, or approximately 5,200 pounds a day, or somewhere around 3 tons smoked every day. (Your math may differ depending on how fat you roll.) I suspect my numbers are conservative, and even at 1972 numbers the amount smoked was closer to 10,000 pounds a day. Every day. Almost 2,000 tons each year.

And that was in 1972.

So now, yet again, we're told of another "massive marijuana bust," and the drug warriors say they captured "close to 500 pounds of the noxious weed." But I have to keep this fact in mind: All they did was impact less than two hours of consumption (at a rate set some 40 years ago). It wouldn't surprise me if today's levels were double, or even triple, those of my youth.

I can't get over the belief that Tommy Pinkins' true crime is he didn't pay the proper people to get his pass to Moultrie, GA.

...in one truck.

You need to know how seeded the stuff was, to figure out how much would be smoking material. :hippie:

It's a rumor I've heard; I would never touch the stuff (seeded pot.)

:smoke:

Seeds count as a potential pound apiece.

Yes, I've heard that argument before.

They let the guy off because he wasn't an illegal alien . . . ?

The only papers he had were Zig-Zags.

Crow

...no?

OK...no story here...if he ain't a Mexycan...and was crossing the border...and shot at a farmer...and
a cop...and was in dirty clothes on a street corner...

no interest on the part of the Haters/GOPeers/RushTurdPublican'ts/TeaScumTraitorBaggers.

on the lam with pot and money.

480 million quarts of crude oil in the Gulf of Mexico: it sucks, but oh well what are ya gonna do...

buy american-smoke american

Next thing you know there will be trucks full of beer riding through our precious innocent freeways.

a quarter ton of herb. Had to be a slight odor action going on, And of course no license plate light.

And that's just one grow operation!

If it was Mexican cartel weed, then there were probably three other pickups loaded with pot right behind the one that got pulled over.

Are you sure they didn't mean two 240 pound fat Mexicans?