February 20, 2008
Senior Citizen Arrested With $1.4 Million Worth of Pot
Rodell Alton Colton couldn't have imagined his birthday would end up like this.
According to a WTOP report, Colton, who just turned 72, had a minor fender-bender in a convenience store parking lot in New Carrolton, Md. on his birthday. As if that wasn't a big enough bummer, when police responded they discovered he was driving on a suspended license, and a subsequent search of his car turned up quite the payload:
Police ordered him to empty his car. He removes one duffel bag and an officer another.There's little doubt that Colton will learn a valuable lesson from this experience -- if your license has been suspended and you're hauling hundreds of pounds of illegal drugs across state lines, don't wait around for the cops to respond to a minor parking lot run-in. Maybe he'll do things differently once he gets out of jail, sometime around his 77th birthday."When the officer removed the large bag, and wrapped his arms around it to lay it on the ground, not only could he smell it but he could feel what he believed to be dope of some kind," says New Carrollton Police Chief David Rice.
The duffel bags contained about 156 pounds of marijuana with a street value of $1.4 million.
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Such a conflation of honesty and illegality the likes of which we don't usually see in PG County. Hopefully this story makes it to all of the City Papers because it's just that good.
i don't know what to say, but i really hope that monkey et al have something clever here...
How is that a 72 year-old man has access to that much weed and no one I know even has a steady connection?
$9K/pound?!?!?!?! Where does a 72 year-old get 156 pounds of the Chronic?
Jeffrey: He's probably been in the business since he was 19, so he has over 50 years' worth of connections (granted, some of them have passed away by now, but still). You need to get some older friends!
$1.4 million, that sounds like some rich people weed.
the elderly are not to be trusted.
I doubt it was worth that much. Cops always inflate the value to make their busts sound more impressive.
Grandpa's going down, yo!!
His license was suspended because he's legally blind. That marijuana was for medicinal purposes. Otherwise...he'd go...even...blinder?
[cue Bob Marley]
Ned: I told you, officer, I'm not "hepped up on Goofballs."
Wiggum: [bored] Yeah, right.
[a church tour bus drives by]
Lovejoy: Ned Flanders! I never would have imagined. [Ned feels weak with shame, then faints]
Wiggum: High as a kite, everybody! Goofballs!
[forces him into the back of the police car]
My grandpa only gave me Werther's and a dollar. I feel so cheated.
that's a lot of Matlock
His house probably smells better than the mothball smell from my Grandpappy's house.
@ Jeffrey: I NO RITE? i can never cop because this guy was bogarding it all. not cool, old dude.
Why are they withholding this guy's name? Do they have to contact his parents first?
If there is one thing I've learned from 20 years of "Cops"...it's only do one illegal thing at a time.
It smells like Otto's jacket.
@mokeyrotica: You might be on to something. (Or on something, I haven't decided.) Marijuana actually helps with glaucoma. You don't have to be completely blind to be "legally blind" -- I'm legally blind in my left eye, have been since birth, but I can see out of it. And yes, I could go "blinder."
just proves my theory that people over 70 shouldn't drive. because then they'll get their weed taken away.