Police Blotter: Stops Made for Accident, Expired Plate End in Marijuana Arrests
The following information was supplied by the Macomb County Sheriff's Office. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
Expired plate leads to arrest for marijuana possession
On June 4, at approximately 11:34 p.m., Macomb County Sheriff's deputies stopped a 20-year-old Macomb Township man in the area of 22 Mile and Romeo Plank for driving with an expired plate on his vehicle.
Upon approaching the vehicle, officers smelled an odor of marijuana and conducted a preliminary search that revealed marijuana stems and seeds in the vehicle's ashtray. More marijuana was later found in the driver's side pocket, according to police.
The man was arrested for possession of marijuana and cited for his expired plate. He was transported to the Macomb County Jail.
Hall Road accident uncovers marijuana, narcotics paraphernalia
On June 5, at approximately 2:40 p.m., Macomb County Sheriff's deputies responded to a two-car accident at Hall Road and Romeo Plank.
The 22-year-old Washington Township driver told deputies he had been checking his phone and had been unable to stop in time to avoid hitting the vehicle in front of him, causing an injury accident, according to police.
While at the scene of the accident, officers found marijuana and narcotics paraphernalia in the driver's possession. He was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and narcotics paraphernalia and transported to the Macomb County Jail. He was not cited for the accident, according to police.
knowa
7:00 am on Sunday, June 10, 2012
unconstitutional drug laws are a jobs program of the worst kind and it ruins peoples lives
david wade
8:04 am on Sunday, June 10, 2012
How is this even newsworthy? Seriously, you guys couldn't come up with anything else to fill this space? Fail!
Dave
6:01 am on Monday, June 11, 2012
David it is a regular feature to have the police blotter.. It is just what the police think is newsworthy this week.
Mary Jo
9:19 am on Sunday, June 10, 2012
Agreed with knowa 100%
Jenny Whalen
10:21 am on Sunday, June 10, 2012
(Consider this question me playing devil's advocate) Marijuana wasn't the reason these men were stopped, but it was why they were arrested. With all this news about Spice, do incidents like these ever make you think it would be better if marijuana were legal?
Dave
5:56 am on Monday, June 11, 2012
It doesn't take the K2/spice to show us how stupid it is to have real cannabis illegal Jenny.
This just shows us how foolish the politicians are for allowing a deadly narcotic to be sold to kids while they on the other hand criminalize a plant that has been used for centuries without these problems. And they've allowed this deadly drug to be sold to kids for years while we arrest their parents for using something safer. It never makes any sense.
I need not go into the fact that our founding fathers all grew marijuana and that our country wouldn't even be here if it had been illegal for them. They'd of all been in prison.. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin.. and more.
If they'd just legalize it already we could get this country's economy back on track, create thousands of new jobs, and put some of our families back together. And i'm not just talking about the trillons of dollars we could make off of legal cannabis products.. we could save billions a year on incarceration and court costs. And enforcement could be better spent on this far more deadly drug. Which also is sapping 100's billions of our American dollars to go to other countries now.
I tell you what though... if they don't legalize cannabis and regulate it properly.. they will never be able to control this K2/spice that they can make anywhere.
Dennis
11:13 am on Sunday, June 10, 2012
IMO, marijuana should be treated just like alcohol. They could regulate it, tax it, collect revenue from it, take out the criminal enterprise and focus on worse crimes. In reality, if kids are going to smoke something, marijuana would be far better than Spice.
Dave
1:16 pm on Monday, June 11, 2012
I agree with you Dennis.. it should be treated just like alcohol. And these drivers should of been ticketed for driving under the influence. That is if they were, i don't know for a fact they were... but the one with seeds and stems in the ashtray left some pretty compelling evidence that he was.
I don't want anyone to misunderstand my postion on legalization of MJ. I still don't condone driving under the influence of anything that impairs your judgement, and i still don't believe children should have access to it without a medical need. I still believe the age for minors should be raised to 19, and that's because it would eliminate alot of the access school children have now to other drugs such as cigerrettes and now this crap they call synthetic THC.
And it's dummies like these that make it harder to get things done. How are we gonna get the real weed legalized if people can't show that they can use it responsibly?
But, on the other hand.. look at how many of the kids buying this crap at gas stations and smoking it while driving that are getting let go simply because the police can't call it illegal because someone wrote on the packet: "not for human consumption." If i'd of known it was that simple to evade the law i would of pushed for all drug dealers to put those labels on their products. Just slap a label that says incense NFHC on a baggie of cannabis and it should be legal right?