Man In Wheelchair Faces 4 Years For Selling 10 Grams Of Marijuana

[bobandtorey]

 

How do we control a waste of taxpayer resources? By not supporting the agency responsible

Undercover agents orchestrated three controlled buys of marijuana and have secured two convictions to show for their work. The convicted include a man in a wheelchair and his wife; the transactions were all for $40 bags. So much for reasonable expenditure of taxpayer resources.

BAYANET, Michigan’s Bay Area Narcotics Enforcement Team, on three separate occasions loaded a “confidential source” into a vehicle, planted money and drugs on them, and then sent them in to buy a tiny 1/8th ounce bag of pot from a disabled man, Ronald Shobe, at his home in Bay County.

Shobe’s wife was also charged; her plea deal is sealed, but she was sentenced to 78 hours of community service. Shobe, in his wheelchair, plead guilty to one count of delivering or manufacturing marijuana; in exchange for his plea, prosecutors in the case dropped a host of other charges including operating a drug house and conspiracy.

At the time of the raid, the Shobes had only $70 in their safe and less than 20 grams of marijuana. These people are not serious drug traffickers. Although an MLive report stated the confidential buyer was not a registered patient and Shobe was, the effort and expenditure made to secure these two convictions far outweigh any potential damage this man in a wheelchair and his wife pose to the community at large.

If this level of crime is what BAYANET chooses to spend their time on, communities that contribute officers or funds to the Team should rethink that strategy. Ronald Shobe, when sentenced by a Bay County Circuit Court judge, should receive the full leniency of law while facing the responsibilities of his guilty plea.

[motorcitymeds]

A fuxing travesty ...abomination ..these pigs should be ashamed to even print this fuxin shiet...!!  WTF..>SMH....and this did what to control the flow of illegal drugs...

 

pure waste this was..!

[solabeirtan]

Very unfortunate for all. Not that I dont have sympathy for the poor fool. It is what it is: a documented case of someone not following the rules. Therefore a Statistict that's embarassing for US and the program.  

 

Unless the snitch misrepresented himself as a Patient, he left himself very vulnerable, esp being in the wheel chair for a Snake Bite from the short arm of the Law.

Looks as though they too are feeding off the bottom. Times are tough all over! Whach out for the Guttersnipes ....    

 

Hopefully the Judge is feeling compassionate the day he goes to court. Good Luck ! 

Edited July 4, 2013 by solabeirtan

[cristinew]

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Edited July 7, 2013 by cristinew

[ozzrokk]

It is fukking sickening.

[imiubu]

It is fukking sickening.

 

DITTO THAT

[+washtenaut]

How about we push for a new qualifying condition comment to be made by our certifying physician.

 

'Uncommon Empathy'.

 

Then, if we provide a little medicine to someone that is without, we would simply be treating our own medical condition.

 

Alright, alright, I'll work on it

[GregS]

These people apparently had nowhere to turn to find how to avoid this.