Posted by Tammie on August 21, 2008 at 12:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Anyone seen farfalla lately?

Posted by theballsiam on August 21, 2008 at 12:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)

250 lbs?! Damn, that's probably enough for a life sentence for whoever got caught with it.

Posted by amandamac on August 21, 2008 at 12:52 p.m. (Suggest removal)

No probably not. depending on who it is they can easy get off with high bond and then probation. It is all about who you know and the atty. I know it may sound crazy but that is how it happens. Whoever it was probably has alot of money stashed somewhere to pay for a GOOD lawyer.

Posted by newto843 on August 21, 2008 at 12:58 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Wish I would have stumbled upon the 250 #'s geez!

Posted by newto843 on August 21, 2008 at 1:04 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Wait maybe I don't ..

100 to 2,000 lbs felony 25 years MMS** $25,000

that is 25 years mandatory no chance of parole. Crazy thing is if it was under 100 lbs it would only be 1 year mandatory.

Posted by Tammie on August 21, 2008 at 1:09 p.m. (Suggest removal)

No matter how much it is or how much it's worth, someone's gonna have an effed up weekend!

Posted by coolfreaknbeans on August 21, 2008 at 1:13 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Bet farfalla is happy.Her dealer just got in a big shipment.

Posted by Marianne0558 on August 21, 2008 at 1:17 p.m. (Suggest removal)

"Suspect crashes in West Ashley, flees
Staff report
Thursday, August 21, 2008

North Charleston police reported chasing a minivan into West Ashley late Wednesday until the driver crashed and ran away.

Officers tried to stop the Hyundai minivan on Interstate 26 east near Montague Avenue around 11 p.m., Spencer Pryor, police public information officer, wrote in an e-mail. The driver continued down the freeway until Cosgrove Avenue and headed toward West Ashley. Pryor did not specify the reason for the stop.

The van drove down S.C. Highway 171 until crashing into a sign and trees at Charlestowne Methodist Church, Pryor said. The driver left the scene. "

I assume this is the chase they are referring to???
Anywho, that is no way $2 mil worth of pot.

Tammie, I'm sure one of the cops who found it will be having an effed up weekend-we all know they like to pinch some of the evidence for themselves...

Posted by Tammie on August 21, 2008 at 1:28 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Marianne, a chase in a Hyundai minivan?! Lmao!! That hamster is pissed it had to work so hard!

Posted by Marianne0558 on August 21, 2008 at 1:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)

hehehehehehehe.
Probably one of those 40mph chases.
Didn't say high speed, so that's what I assume anyway. IMO, if it were high speed, the PnC would have made a special paragraph dedicated to the "death" speeds... hehe

Posted by theballsiam on August 21, 2008 at 2:12 p.m. (Suggest removal)

You guys are right. 2 million dollars for 250 lbs equals out to 8,000 dollars per lb. As an ex pothead, that would have to be the best weed ever for it to cost 8000 dollars a lb. Even if they said it was 750,000 dollars worth of pot, that would still be pushing it.

Posted by prosperous_hb on August 21, 2008 at 2:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Whatever the $ amout is, I bet some of those cops pocketed some of that weed to smoke for themselves.

Posted by theballsiam on August 21, 2008 at 2:21 p.m. (Suggest removal)

^ No doubt.

Posted by guidedbystewart on August 21, 2008 at 2:31 p.m. (Suggest removal)

It must be pretty good stuff, if they had 250 pounds and the cops said that the street value was 2 million, that means the price per once would be 500 bucks. Sounds alittle steep to me. I would say more but it would be incriminating.

Posted by guidedbystewart on August 21, 2008 at 2:33 p.m. (Suggest removal)

oz. 500 bucks

Posted by jeff61 on August 21, 2008 at 2:48 p.m. (Suggest removal)

LOL Tammie I was about to say the same thing..

Posted by Marianne0558 on August 21, 2008 at 2:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Notice the story now reads, "450 pounds of pot"

Posted by bullygirl on August 21, 2008 at 2:55 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Marianne0558 and prosperous_hb: You should be ashamed of yourselves for saying that the NCPD narcotics dept. would take some of the bust for themselves. The people in that dept. work harder than you ever will in your life. You should be thankful that bust was made Marianne. They are hard at work keeping drugs off the streets and away from your kids.

Posted by Marianne0558 on August 21, 2008 at 3:09 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I would be amazed if my 2 year old were lighting up marijuana first of all.
Second of all, you have NO idea what I do or how hard I work.
Third of all, marijuana isn't the worst of what's out there. It's funny, I hardly see 450 pounds of cocaine or heroine or meth being confiscated.
At least marijuana grows out of the ground and isn't made by some lunatic huffing fumes from God knows what.
Honestly, if I caught my child smoking marijuana, yes they would get the lecture, but it isn't the end of the world.

Posted by bullygirl on August 21, 2008 at 3:18 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Well apparently you don't know how hard the NCPD narcotics dept works. They do cocaine and heroine and meth busts. But they don't all make the news. And 450 pounds of marijuana is a big deal.

Posted by Marianne0558 on August 21, 2008 at 3:20 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I never said it wasn't a lot of pot. Where did I once state that the NCPD narcotics department DOESN'T work hard? Why don't those busts make the news? Hmm...

THEY SHOULD WORK HARD B/C MY TAX DOLLARS ARE PAYING THEM TO WORK HARD ;)

Posted by theballsiam on August 21, 2008 at 3:21 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Maybe if they worked harder to prevent murders and other violent crimes instead of busting people with pot, North Charleston would be a much safer place rather one of the most dangerous places in America. Now I know some drugs fuel violence, but if weed was legal there wouldn't be much violence surrounding it, but that's a whole different story.

Posted by Marianne0558 on August 21, 2008 at 3:24 p.m. (Suggest removal)

*applause*

Posted by bullygirl on August 21, 2008 at 3:45 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Hello....the narcotics dept. job isn't to prevent murders. But they do go after the drug dealers and such who participate in such acts. Alot of the busts don't make it to the news because the people they bust make a plea deal to work for the police. Messed up, I know. Also.....majority of the murders in North Chas are not innocent victims.

Posted by Marianne0558 on August 21, 2008 at 3:57 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I doesn't matter if they are innocent victims. Just because someone has a drug problem doesn't mean they deserve to be shot and killed, or their family members for that matter. Children either when a drug deal goes bad and these thugs shoot up a house with no regard as to who is inside.
Maybe if the narcotics department worked harder, these drug dealers wouldn't be causing the murders.

Posted by Marianne0558 on August 21, 2008 at 4:16 p.m. (Suggest removal)

*I was gonna write a good story, but then I got high*
*I was gonna do my math, but I was hiiiigh*
*Now I had to edit and I know why,, yeaaah*
*Cuz I got high, because I got high, Cuz I got hiiigh*
*La di da da dadada*

Posted by Yeah_I_said_it on August 21, 2008 at 4:20 p.m. (Suggest removal)

No you didn't pull that one out. Now I will be singing it for the rest of the day. Thanks, Marianne! Lol!

Posted by bullygirl on August 21, 2008 at 4:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)

They can't work 24 hours a day, although sometimes it seems like they do sometimes. They do all that they can and what is in their power to do. They can only do some much before someone says that the dealers rights are being broken. Busting all the dealers doesn't do any good when the courts are letting them out, regardless of how many offenses they have. The police can only do so much....they can't keep them in jail when there are lawyers waiting to bail them out because they "go to church every Sunday" and they are really "good boys". Here's another way to look at it.....should we blame all the teachers because our state is one of the worst for education? The teachers can only do so much with what they have to work with. Same with the police.

Posted by Marianne0558 on August 21, 2008 at 4:27 p.m. (Suggest removal)

No, I blame parents all around. Parents of drug dealers, parents of the poor educated.
I attended public schools here in Charleston from kindergarten through 12th grade. It takes a good parent to raise educated children in South Carolina.

By the way, I'm pretty sure the police DO work 24 hours. It's called ROTATING SHIFTS.
You can step off your little police soapbox, bully-it's starting to crack-no pun intended.

And Yeah, I said it. I hope you sing it in your head when you are trying to fall asleep tonight! haha-it's stuck in mine now too. DOH!

Posted by Yeah_I_said_it on August 21, 2008 at 4:33 p.m. (Suggest removal)

LMAO..Marianne. It will keep me up and I will have to sing it to my husband!

And you beat me to the "cops don't work 24 hours a day" comment. WTF! I thought we were paying them for all day all night protection. Maybe that is the problem, they should work the hours that the dealers work and then they will be able to catch them.

Posted by bullygirl on August 21, 2008 at 4:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Yes, some do have rotating shifts. But not all! The guys that did the drug bust and all the other detectives in the dept. will work on cases days on end with out going home. They don't work the 10 hour shifts that the patrolmen do.
By the way, I too grew up in the SC education system, from preschool all the way up to CofC.

Posted by coolfreaknbeans on August 21, 2008 at 4:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)

bullygirl-No offense but you have NO clue what we are talking about.A poster on this site used to boast about getting her weed from a North Charleston COP.So....now it's a running joke.Calm down Turbo.

Posted by letstakeawalk on August 21, 2008 at 5:37 p.m. (Suggest removal)

coolfreaknbeans

LOL - Bullygirl does know exactly what she's talking about. The North Charleston Narc squad is on call 24hrs a day, and the officers do give up alot of their personal lives in an attempt to make life better for the residents of NC.

Her analogy to the school system is valid: We give trained prfessionals a job to do, and then hamstring them in different ways (too little funding, lack of community support, a blame the messenger mentality, etc.) The courts are definitely part of the problem, as are the laws written by the legislature. If you don't think grass is a serious problem, then ask for it to be removed from the controlled substance list. Otherwise, the cops have to bust pot heads just like they go after indoor smokers or outdoor drinkers downtown!

bullygirl - just remember that alot of the posters on here are dancers at the clubs in North Chuck, so they get fired up about these things. Many posters have multiple log-ins, reflecting their multiple personality disorders. Half the time they troll these forums, just looking for the rudest possible things to say. They get banned, they come back, just like roaches.

Posted by willie08 on August 21, 2008 at 5:42 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Legalize it - don't criticize it
Legalize it and i will advertise it

Some call it tampee
Some call it the weed
Some call it Marijuana
Some of them call it Ganja

Legalize it - don't criticize it
Legalize it and i will advertise it

Singer smoke it
And players of instruments too
Legalize it, yeah, yeah
That's the best thing you can do
Doctors smoke it
Nurses smoke it
Judges smoke it
Even the lawyers too

Legalize it - don't criticize it
Legalize it and i will advertise it

It's good for the flu
It's good for asthma
Good for tuberculosis
Even umara composis

Legalize it - don't criticize it
Legalize it and i will advertise it

Bird eat it
And they leave it
Fowls eat it
Goats love to play with it

-The Great Peter Tosh

If I get high and fly like bird
You should never say a word
Thats nobodys business but my own
And if you drink rum and tumble down
You alone go and have your fun
Thats nobodys business but your own.

-Peter Tosh

Posted by newto843 on August 21, 2008 at 6:06 p.m. (Suggest removal)

So sick of the pot debate, because it has been labeled an illegal narcotic by the gubment all the drones will argue in favor of that propaganda with out ever learning the facts. It seems like a hopeless battle to me.

Posted by realman on August 21, 2008 at 7:29 p.m. (Suggest removal)

This confiscation will not reduce the amount of marijuana use in North Charleston. It will not reduce the amount of drug addiction, or DWI's, or anything else.

If marijuana were decriminalized and regulated, it could be taxed and controlled just like alcoholic beverages.

They found guns, too. If marijuana were decriminalized and regulated, it would not be profitable for (violent) criminals to sell it.

If marijuana were decriminalized and regulated, then it could no longer be used as a "stepping stone" to harder, addictive drugs such as heroin and crack, etc. If someone wanted to sell hard drugs, they wouldn't be able to use marijuana as an introduction to recreational drug use. Not only that, younger folks wouldn't have immediate access to marijuana, as they do now, in virtually any high school.

If marijuana were decriminalized and regulated, all the current law enforcement resources that are being used to enforce the current marijuana laws could be redirected to more important matters, such as fighting heroin and cocaine trafficking.

I think we should consider these facts.

Posted by bagballa on August 21, 2008 at 8:11 p.m. (Suggest removal)

saying weed is a gateway drug to other harder drugs, is like saying Kool-aide is a stepping stone to Patron.

Posted by guidedbystewart on August 21, 2008 at 8:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)

actually the true gateway drug is aspririn, it was mine and I bet 95% of the populations 1st drug.

Posted by jammer on August 21, 2008 at 8:30 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I didn't know koolaid was a stepping stone to patron??

saying weed is a gateway drug to other harder drugs, is merely stating the facts

growing up in the 70's most of my friends found that gateway to be very true, many are 6ft under today thanks to those harder drugs that it led too...

try not to say something so stupid and dangerous, our kids don't need any extra enticement to try ANY drug

if you smoked dope and stopped it at that then you are indeed a rarity, not a majority

good job NCPD

Posted by theballsiam on August 21, 2008 at 10:53 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Jammer, you're a retard. I truly feel sorry for your lack of mental capacity. That is all.