When bailing out friends, leave the stash at home
Friday, June 12th, 2009 at 5:20 pm | By: Radical Russ
ASHLAND – Two Webster men who went to the Police Station to bail out a friend on Monday were arrested after police saw them with a marijuana-filled cigar while parked in front of the station.
Jason Barry, 22, and his cousin, Brian Cherry, 18, were arrested at 6:17 p.m.
According to a police report filed by Sgt. Gregg Wildman, the pair had come to the station to bail out Akeem Atkins, 23, also of Webster, who was arrested at 12:57 p.m. and charged with breaking into a car on Central Street.
Barry and Cherry were waiting in their car, when Wildman, who was in street clothes, walked by the car and saw what appeared to be a blunt — a cigar emptied of tobacco and filled with marijuana — in the car, Wildman wrote.
Upon questioning, Cherry said there was a black shoebox in the trunk.
Wildman said he found a digital scale and a plastic bag “containing a significant amount of green herbal substance” believed to be marijuana in the box.
When it comes to bailing out friends, I recommend the bus or a taxi. I never like to drive to a police station or courthouse in my own car. I’m not stupid enough to bring along a shoebox full of weed, blunts, bags, and scales, but who knows when your taillight is going to go out or a plainclothes policeman walking by thinks he sees or smells something? In Massachusetts you have a bit of leeway because even if they found a little weed in your car it is just a civil fine, but if you’re in a place like Oklahoma or Idaho or Florida, that little seed that rolled out of your hand when you bought a bag and rolled underneath your car seat three years ago could be enough to put you in jail.
One day the police called me to pick my son up at the cop shop. I simply told them I had been drinking and made arrangements for someone else to get him.
Amateurs. They ratted themselves out. And now they get a real charge instead of a ticket for having a scale. Dumb. Reminds of the guys I grew up with that were loaded on booze at a party. “Johnny just got busted for OUI, let’s go bail him out.” Ten minutes later the whole car of them are in jail, the driver for OUI and the rest for being drunk in public/resisting arrest. Never go to see the police when you have weed or are under the influence, especially in a car! Like Russ said.
“Barry and Cherry were waiting in their car, when Wildman, who was in street clothes, walked by the car and saw what appeared to be a blunt — a cigar emptied of tobacco and filled with marijuana — in the car, Wildman wrote.”
How did the cop automatically know it was a blunt? Most blunts I seen/rolled look like cigars or cigarillos.