Men claim they’d been to Magic City strip club. Then cops seized their $12,900, weed
One night in early July, a pair of Crisp County men in a 2013 Audi with Florida plates were pulled over along Interstate 75 north of Forsyth. They were doing 97 mph in a 70-mph zone, according to a Monroe County sheriff’s report of the July 1 incident.
A sheriff’s deputy talked to the driver, 25, and the passenger, 26, and as the deputy’s write-up would note, “While speaking to both subjects, I could smell the odor of raw, burnt marijuana coming from the vehicle.”
The men said they were returning from Atlanta. When the deputy asked the driver for his driver’s license, the driver, nervous, reportedly handed the deputy a debit card by mistake. After then handing over his license to the deputy, the driver was asked about the marijuana odor.
“What marijuana?” the driver replied.
The deputy then asked the driver, “When was the last time weed was in the car?”
“Never!” said the driver.
The passenger said, “Oh, I smoked earlier in Atlanta.”
The deputy soon began a search of the car and also searched its two occupants. “Large” amounts of cash — $12,900 in all — were found in a pocket of the passenger’s pants and in the car’s center console, the deputy’s report noted.
“I asked both subjects what they were doing with that kind of money and both advised, ‘We went to the strip club in Magic City.’”
In the car’s trunk, cops were said to have found a backpack “that had a large clear bag filled with a green leafy substance believed to be marijuana, with 20 small personalized bags, with a basketball logo.”
The passenger said the drugs were his and he was jailed on a felony possession charge, the report said. The driver was not charged.
Dispatches: A 60-year-old man went into the USA Grocery on Rocky Creek Road in southwest Macon early one morning last month to get a bottle of water and some potato chips. “He stated he had left his car running since he was only going to be in the store for a minute,” a Bibb County sheriff’s report of the July 1 episode noted. Moments later, the man poked his head outside after seeing three young men walk up, jump in his 2006 Chevy Malibu and speed off. . . . In late June, a Macon woman told the cops she had a get-together at her house on Houston Avenue. Several people attended. The woman said she fell asleep before everyone left. When she woke the next morning, a sheriff’s report noted, “she noticed that her pistol was missing from her fanny pack.”