Old Codgers Of The Week – Part Eight
Deciding what to give friends and relatives for Christmas calls for a certain degree of inventiveness but on occasions what may seem a good idea at the time isn’t always seen that way by those who are not attuned to your synapses, as this cautionary tale I came across this week shows.
Eighty-year-old Patrick Jiron from Northern California was stopped by traffic police in York County Nebraska. The police detected the unmistakable odour of raw marijuana emanating from the back of the pickup truck and on further investigation around 60 pounds of weed plus multiple containers of concentrated THC in the back – a haul with an estimated street value of some $300,000.
Jiron held his hands up, saying that he was on his way to Boston and Vermont and that the bags of weed were Christmas presents for his grateful friends and relatives. The officers of the law were not convinced and Jiron together with his 83-year-old wife are up before the beak for possessing marijuana with the intent to deliver and for not having a drug tax stamp.
Better stick to socks and pant next time, methinks.
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