By "Radical" Russ Belville on January 12, 2009
State’s offbeat moments lightened year :
State and Regional News : Knoxville News Sentinel
In McMinnville, [Tennessee,] police in May said they arrested a man who misdialed and ordered marijuana from a sheriff’s deputy.
Investigators said Deputy Jason Rowland answered his cell phone and someone asked if he had any “smoke.” Rowland played along and the caller ordered $40 worth of marijuana.
The buyer showed up and police charged him with solicitation of drug sales.
Misdialing your dealer and getting the police isn’t stupid, it’s unlucky. But calling a cell phone number to order weed in the first place, that’s stupid. Every call you make is not only a log of who ordered what from whom and at what time, but also a triangulated position of everyone involved in the call. And cell signals are pretty easy to intercept even without a warrant.
Naw, I changed my mind. It’s stupid, period. Even if you are making this ill-advised call, you don’t use some sort of code and identify the person you are speaking with first? Bad form.
Posted in ABNORML NEWS, ACTIVISM, LAW ENFORCEMENT | Tagged cops, Deputy Jason Rowland, knoxville news sentinel, mcminnville tennessee, Misdialing, police, solicitation, Tennessee
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