CALLAWAY, Fla. -- Help, police, someone stole my pot!

A Panhandle couple is under arrest after notifying police
Thursday that their quarter-pound stash of marijuana was
stolen and that they needed the weed back, because they were
going to later sell it.

"They're America's dumbest criminals," said Lt. Ricky Ramie,
head of the Bay County Sheriff's Office narcotics task force.

Deputies arrested 18-year-old John Douglas Sheetz and
17-year-old Misty Ann Holmes and charged the duo with
possession of marijuana with intent to deliver and
possession of drug paraphernalia.

According to the police report, the couple returned to
the home they share and found the home broken into and a
quarter-pound of marijuana missing. They immediately called
authorities to report the break-in and theft.

Police said the couple told them they were going to resell
the marijuana and allowed the detectives to search the apartment.
Investigators discovered several marijuana stems among other drug
paraphernalia during the search, The News Herald in Panama
City reported for Saturday editions.

They were taken to the Bay County Jail and are each being
held on $17,500 bond.

Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press.

On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 22:44:20 -0500, someone wrote:

CALLAWAY, Fla. -- Help, police, someone stole my pot!

A Panhandle couple is under arrest after notifying police
Thursday that their quarter-pound stash of marijuana was
stolen and that they needed the weed back, because they were
going to later sell it.

That's OK, I once had a client who called the police to report that
his pot pipe and his cable TV "black box" were stolen. The box was
actually the bigger problem - in this state it is actually a
FELONY!!!!

The cop even asked the guy if he was sure he wanted to report this -
and the guy said yes. He had an idea who broke into his place, and he
wanted them caught. He ended up with more legal hassles than they
did.

A few years back there was a guy (again in FL) who called police to
report that a bag of cocaine was stolen from his hotel room. The
police asked him to describe it, got a similar bag from their storage,
asked the guy if it looked like his, asked if he wanted it back - and
the guy took it back signed for it. At which point they arrested him.

-v.


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On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 16:45:51 GMT, (v) wrote:

On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 22:44:20 -0500, someone wrote:

CALLAWAY, Fla. -- Help, police, someone stole my pot!

A Panhandle couple is under arrest after notifying police
Thursday that their quarter-pound stash of marijuana was
stolen and that they needed the weed back, because they were
going to later sell it.

That's OK, I once had a client who called the police to report that
his pot pipe and his cable TV "black box" were stolen. The box was
actually the bigger problem - in this state it is actually a
FELONY!!!!

Hmmm - drug paraphernalia (with no drugs) vs. theft of services.

Which do you think is a bigger problem?

In article , Olaf Gustafson wrote:
On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 16:45:51 GMT, (v) wrote:

On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 22:44:20 -0500, someone wrote:

CALLAWAY, Fla. -- Help, police, someone stole my pot!

A Panhandle couple is under arrest after notifying police
Thursday that their quarter-pound stash of marijuana was
stolen and that they needed the weed back, because they were
going to later sell it.

That's OK, I once had a client who called the police to report that
his pot pipe and his cable TV "black box" were stolen. The box was
actually the bigger problem - in this state it is actually a
FELONY!!!!

Hmmm - drug paraphernalia (with no drugs) vs. theft of services.

Which do you think is a bigger problem?

Depends on how you define "bigger problem" IMO.

Theft of services clearly harms the cable TV company by depriving them of
revenue due for services provided. It's not clear that the couple with the
marijuana was harming anyone.

On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 08:10:57 -0800, someone wrote:


Bottom line, It's debatable whether either the people with the pot or
the pirates were hurting anyone.

The cable company claimed some incredible trumped up loss of over
$12,000 from this one guy. Their "estimate" assumed that the theft
began the day they began servicing the area, and that the guy took
every premium channel, a huge amount of pay per view per day, and
every special event.

The guy was TRYING to plead out - he admitted to both the pipe and the
black box. He wasn't claiming he hadn't stolen additional services
(he had a basic subscription), the main question was how much. The
judge was not particularly sympathetic to the cable company's
approach, and eventually it settled for about $2,000.

-v.


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