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Marijuana busts: Fake accent, real drugs; and, 'tint for tat.
BY THE OBSERVER STAFF
Dec. 8
Can I 'accent' you a question?
4:14 p.m. — First Block of Beach Street. Suspicious Person. An officer was in Cassen Park when the defendant approached his patrol car and began speaking in a fake accent. The defendant asked the officer to conduct a well-being check on him, and according to the officer, he seemed nervous and kept switching back and forth from a fake accent. The officer said the defendant kept suddenly changing the subject to things like “physics, relative to drug use.”
The officer asked him to sit on the curb, but the defendant began undressing immediately. The officer, again, instructed the defendant to sit down, this time he complied. During the investigation, the defendant placed his hands in his pockets several times, and, at one point, threw items into a nearby palm tree, before running from officers.
The defendant was quickly captured and secured in the back of a patrol car. The officers recovered the items the defendant threw: a marijuana pipe and a marijuana grinder. He was read his Miranda rights.
Dec. 8
Saved by the wire
11:28 p.m. — 500 Block of S. Yonge Street. Traffic Stop. The officer conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle that appeared to have illegal window tint. During the officer’s interactions with the two individuals in the vehicle, he noticed one of them was nervous and uncooperative, and he also saw “Swisher Sweets Blunts cigars, commonly used to smoke narcotics, laying in the center console.”
The driver refused to let the officer search the vehicle, and a K-9 unit was called in. The dog alerted the officer to the presence of an odor from narcotics in the driver’s side door. Upon searching the vehicle, the officer found a marijuana grinder with a small amount of marijuana in it. Both individuals said it wasn’t theirs, and said they didn’t know how it got there. Both individuals were placed in the back of a squad car, and a recording device was turned on so officers could hear the conversation.
Both individuals, while in the back of the patrol car, said to each other they didn’t know how the grinder and marijuana got there. Later, they said it belonged to a mutual friend. The police released the individuals and placed the grinder, marijuana and recording into evidence.
