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Teen accidentally texts Sheriff to buy Pot

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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I just seen our Sherriff yesterday. He was at the hardware store here in town. And I noticed his truck sittin out front as I was leaving. It's a 2006 King Ranch Edition Ford Double cab. Nice truck. Then as I was walking by it I noticed on the side there was a decal that said,
"This truck was siezed from a drug dealer in Grimes County" hahahaha here while back there were bunch of folks havin a fit over his "new truck" that the "County" footed the bill on. What they don't know is...our Sherriff always has furnished his own truck. Except this time...but I thought it was kinda neat.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Here's the full story...

The Navasota Examiner & Grimes County Review
Serving Navasota and Grimes County, Texas, since 1894
Friday, July 27, 2007

Pickup tells school students tale of betting the (King) Ranch on drugs


By STEVE SNYDER Examiner editor

That King Ranch Ford Grimes County Sheriff Don Sowell drives? He can thank Deputy Mike Clark.

That's because the truck came to the Sheriff's Office courtesy of a asset seizure and forfeiture off a crime worked by Clark.

He explained what happened a little over a year ago, March 27, 2006.

"I was working traffic on Hwy. 105. A truck passed by and appeared to have expired registration," he said.

So, Clark caught up to the forest green 2004 King Ranch and confirmed that its registration was, in fact, a year out of date.

Clark said that the driver of the vehicle, Shelley Stubblefield of Austin, appeared nervous while Clark was running his registration. So, Clark then had a check run on his driver's license for possible criminal background, and said the check showed Stubblefield had an extensive drug history.

Clark then asked for consent to search the truck, and got it. He said he smelled marijuana; it turned out that both a sandwich bag and a grocery bag in the pickup had marijuana.

So, he officially took Stubblefield into custody and began a full search of the truck. He then found the marijuana in the back seat.

Clark then got his drug-search dog, Sammy, a Belgian malinois. Clark took all the individual boxes and other items out of the truck and spread them on the ground.

He explained that, when Sammy gets a "hit," he usually barks or does something similar. That didn't happen on any containers, but Sammy did circle one box more than once.

It turns out Sammy just hadn't been trained on its contents.

Inside of an Office Depot box, Clark found what turned out to be about 8 pounds of hallucinogenic psilocybin mushrooms with a listed value of about $35,000.

After Stubblefield's arrest, the Grimes County District Attorney's Office began the process of asset seizure forfeiture. District Attorney Tuck McLain explained the process.

"Within 30 days of taking possession of property, we have to file an 'intent to seize' lawsuit," he said.

The lawsuit most allege the item was used in the commission of certain types of felonies, and must demonstrate that to win the suit. McLain said many such lawsuits are won through non-response by defendants; others, as was the case with the King Ranch, are won as part of plea bargains in the criminal cases. McLain said his assistant, prosecutor Andrea Bender, handled this particular case.

The seized item is then either sold at auction or else incorporated into use by the law enforcement agency making the arrest.

Given something of such value as the King Ranch Ford, with a new-sale sticker price of $44,000 in 2004, and questions of how much it might draw on resale, Sowell decided the department would be better off keeping it. Besides a personal-use vehicle, he said it makes a good "show-and-tell" item for events such as anti-drug talks at local schools.
 

I Luv Herfrds

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Had a similar thing happen here, but it was a custom silver supped up Firebird.
Owner sold drugs to a DEA agent. They got the car and drove it all over the state to schools and using it as an anti drug car.

As for the previous owner he is now sitting in the state prison for life for murder.
 

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