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Don't smoke dope while driving with your weapon!
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:09 pm
by seamusTX
Florida man obtains permit after seven arrests for possession of marijuana. The police stop him for running a stop sign. He tells officer he is armed and has a permit. No problem. Then officers smell marijuana. They search the car and find two burning joints
and a baggie. Busted.
Felony charges.
That's why they call it dope.
Link here.
Interesting that Florida allows someone with a record like that to obtain a permit. Bad press for the rest of us.
- Jim
Re: Don't smoke dope while driving with your weapon!
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:25 pm
by atxgun
"...on felony charges of armed possession of marijuana and possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony..."
Kind of a catch-22 double whammy.
Re: Don't smoke dope while driving with your weapon!
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 3:52 pm
by barres
Saw more detail on this story on another forum. First of all arrests do not equal convictions. Secondly he plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts, and was basically given something like deferred adjudication, so those convictions don't show on his record and would be misdemeanors and not felonies if they did. No convictions for the other arrests.
Yes this guy makes us look bad. But FL law was followed in approving this guy for a CHL (or whatever they call their license). The author of the article doesn't seem to grasp that. He just wants to make the whole CHL idea seem flawed, when the legal system "failed" to hold this person to the author's opinion of justice.