Feds turn down 150 pound fish fry.

[Verite]

Seems their fry limit is 500 pound fish.

Couple with 150 pounds of marijuana won't face federal charges

No federal charges will be filed against a Washington state couple who were found in St. Paul with more than 150 pounds of marijuana in the gas tank of their pickup.

The man and woman were arrested but have since been released. The case has been turned over to the St. Paul Police Department, which will present its findings to Ramsey County prosecutors.

On Saturday, the couple stopped at a Midas shop when their pickup wouldn't run. A mechanic discovered the pickup had a recently modified fuel tank. A state trooper was called and found the tank held 157 pounds of marijuana -- with an estimated street value of about $157,000.

But federal authorities declined to prosecute the couple. The reason is that the federal Drug Enforcement Administration does not bring marijuana cases to the U.S. Attorney's office unless the confiscated amount is more than 500 pounds.

"I think it is unusual," Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom said, regarding a the lack of prosecution. "This is a significant quantity of marijuana that these people were caught with."

Fred Bruno, a defense attorney with experience defending drug cases in federal court, said he wasn't surprised by decision not to prosecute in federal court. He was not involved in the gas tank case.

"It's a big case by state standards but a small case by federal standards," Bruno said. "That amount would raise just about every eyebrow in the state judicial system, but maybe not many in the federal system."

http://www.kare11.com/news/ts_article.aspx?storyid=244923

 

[cadillachydro]

Wow, I wonder what thats all about. Depends on how deep you wanna think about it I guess.

What a dickhead mechanic. Midas just lost my business, not that those hacks would've ever got it in the first place. Are people so bored and miserable with their own lives that they have to do things like this to get a little excitement. I mean really.. why'd he have to call the cops?

That's just pathetic, if this is what being an honest citizen is all about, I prefer to stay corrupt as a mofo. What a fucking loser.

 

[HCSmyth]

The mechanic was probably some shmuck that got too curious then got too scared.

 

[Papulz]

f'in A qrst would you quit posting that photo

 

[Jack Crevalle]

Seems their fry limit is 500 pound fish.

The case sounds fishy Verite, like sensationalist almost by the reporter.

Would a couple take a pickup to Midas because the car was not running if they knew it had bud in the tank? Bud in the tank? That sounds like a Mexican drug cartel operation.

Sounds to me like these people were released because they had no clue there was a brick of pressed mexy. Maybe it was truck they may have bought off someone who also had no clue...

Anyway, it seems weird they wouldn't go after someone to find where it came from if they knew they had a case...

 

[killa-bud]

fucking rats,how do you think they got out