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June 28, 2007
Sometimes a blind squirrel finds a nut
Do you think this pot dealing genius knows "the urinator"? If so, there's gonna be some 'splainin that needs to be done:
A man urinating in a Portage Park alley unwittingly helped lead police to a huge stash of marijuana this week, police said.
It started when tactical officers with the Jefferson Park police district spotted a suspicious man in a Northwest Side alley just before 10 p.m. Tuesday.
The man fled, and as police chased him, they spotted a man relieving himself in the alley. That man -- referred to in a police report as "the urinator" -- fled, too, and police chased him. During the pursuit, police ran by a garage with an open door in the 5900 block of West Patterson. Inside was a man putting marijuana into plastic bags, police said.
After searching the garage, the adjacent home and a red Chevy Tahoe nearby, police found 100 pounds of pot with a $670,000 street value and $20,000 in cash, police said. Three men were arrested on drug charges, including "the urinator."
There has to be no worse feeling for a criminal than to draw the cops' attention for something fairly innocuous, only to have the major crime discovered. I'm talking about the guy who gets pulled over for speeding, whereupon the cops notice the headless body in the backseat. I think getting busted because the police are chasing your buddy for pissing in an alley falls squarely into this category. Or maybe you pick up a hitchhiker who wants to one-up the Eight Minute Abs people:
I have a second job now, working down at the criminal courts. We had a guy come in today who got pulled over for some minor traffic violation. The cops found a white powder on the seat. Needless to say, they hauled him off to the pokey. Whoops! Then again, I'm pretty sure lots of cops will pull over black people simply for having a crooked rear view mirror. Either way, it's a hell of a way to get busted for possessing crack.
entry no. 896
Posted by oz115 at June 28, 2007 10:48 PM