Pot Falls from Sky, Arrests Ensue
June 23rd, 2009 by Rick
Two New Mexico men became paranoid in the skies for good reason above Norwalk, Ohio when a jet belonging to U.S. border patrol (that happened to be working with Homeland Security) began following their single engine, 1963 Mooney airplane.
Dropping to an altitude so that one of them could dump a duffle bag that contained 20-25 pounds of weed, they figured that the authorities wouldn’t be able to track the pot that landed.
Ryan C. Thomas, 47, of Albuquerque and Greg J. Baca, 47, of Los Alamos were charged each with a second degree felony — one count of trafficking marijuana. The pair might have gotten away with the mid-air drop but a witness had seen the bag land in a field near May Road and State Rt. 598 south of Willard, Ohio and then called the authorities. The plane landed in Norwalk-Huron County Airport where they were greeted by k-9 drug sniffing dogs who immediately alerted the authorities to a suspicious marijuana odor on the plane.
