Man charged with trying to pedal away with pot plants.Byline: Rebecca Nolan The Register-Guard A Eugene man allegedly gave new meaning to the term "drug trafficking" this week. Police spotted Dwayne Earl Anthony Earl Roderick Anthony (April 27 1938 - August 14 2001) was a left-handed American professional bowler. He amassed a total of 41 titles on the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) Tour, a record that was broken by Walter Ray Williams on September 24, 2006. Etzel, 18, pedaling a bike down Polk Street Polk Street is a street in San Francisco that travels northward from Market Street to Jefferson Street. It's attractions are the See's Candy flagship store at California Street, and is usually cleaned every Saturday by the neighborhood organization. on Monday with three uprooted marijuana marijuana or marihuana, drug obtained from the flowering tops, stems, and leaves of the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa (see hemp) or C. indica; the latter species can withstand colder climates. plants under his arm - perhaps not the best plan, since it was 5:40 p.m. and still light out. Narcotics narcotics n. 1) techinically, drugs which dull the senses. 2) a popular generic term for drugs which cannot be legally possessed, sold, or transported except for medicinal uses for which a physician or dentist's prescription is required. Detective Scott Vinje happened to be driving through the neighborhood at the time. The bicyclist had a big smile on his face, he said. "I see this guy riding up the street with what looked like a big old bush under his arm," Vinje said. "It didn't click right away that it was marijuana. Then I smelled it." Etzel remained in the Lane County Jail on Tuesday on charges of felony felony (fĕl`ənē), any grave crime, in contrast to a misdemeanor, that is so declared in statute or was so considered in common law. burglary burglary, at common law, the breaking and entering of a dwelling house of another at night with the intent to commit a felony, whether the intent is carried out or not. , drug possession, criminal mischief A specific injury or damage caused by another person's action or inaction. In Civil Law, a person who suffered physical injury due to the Negligence of another person could allege mischief in a lawsuit in tort. , escape and trespassing. Etzel rode off, police say, right into the path of Detective Jeff Drullinger, who also was in the neighborhood. He pulled up alongside the bicyclist, showed him a badge and ordered him to stop. Instead, the bicyclist got off his bike and tossed it at the truck Drullinger was driving, Vinje said. He then climbed back on the bicycle and rode away, leaving the marijuana plants behind. Officer Steven Timm found the man riding near West 12th Avenue and Van Buren Street. Timm ordered him to stop, but the cyclist kept rolling as he tried to pull a baggie of dried marijuana out of his pants pocket, Vinje said. He rode toward Timm, who gave him a shove on the shoulder and knocked him to the roadway. The cyclist tried to get up and get away several times, prompting one of the officers to deliver a short blast of pepper spray to his face, police spokeswoman Kerry Delf said. After that, the suspect relented and was taken into custody with incident. Around the same time, a man who lives near West 10th Avenue and Tyler Street called police to report three of his medical marijuana plants stolen. The man said he was watching television when a noise drew him to the rear of his house. He looked in his marijuana growing area and saw a man standing inside, with an uprooted marijuana plant in his hand. The thief ran away with three plants. |
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