(MTV News) While his fellow castmates were celebrating the $100 million opening-day box office success of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” Jamie Waylett was in a London court on Thursday pleading guilty to growing marijuana, according to The Associated Press.
Waylett, who has played Hogwarts bully Vincent Crabbe in all of the six “Potter” films, was originally busted in April after police searched a car he was riding in and discovered eight bags of marijuana and a knife. Police then raided his mother’s home and found 10 marijuana plants. The cannabis was reportedly worth approximately $2,900 and was growing under hydroponic lights, next to a PlayStation console.
Along with a friend, the 19-year-old Waylett pleaded guilty to growing the drug at a hearing at City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 14 years. Judge Timothy Workman announced that the two men would be sentenced Tuesday.
I have no reports of Waylett growing this marijuana to help supply needy patients with desperately needed medicine. I have to believe that Waylett was growing 10 plants for his own personal purposes. Certainly he’s made enough coin from the “Harry Potter” franchise* that he doesn’t need to grow cannabis for sale. I’d imagine an actor of such fame would resort to growing his own to avoid the possibility of being busted buying weed from dealers.
But if you’re going to grow your own to maintain some privacy, what are you doing riding around in a car with a guy transporting eight different bags of pot?
* For the record, I have never read a “Harry Potter” book and I have never seen a “Harry Potter” movie. I have to assume this guy is famous.
He’s a fairly minor character but he’s still probably fairly well off.
Well I hate harry potter, but I have 4 kids that have grown up watching and reading it. This guy is barly in the films, in fact when went yeaterday for the new film, he was in one scene, walking out of frame. So no I dont think this guy is too famous and I wouldnt think he has much coin because of one scene walking! So he may have been selling those baggies after all!