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Since we’re already on the subject, here is one more photoset of another large cocaine bust.

In Colombia, a place not known for its traffic safety, a ton of cocaine was discovered after the truck transporting it crashed. It must be a nice day for police officers to have 2,000+ pounds of coke just fall into your lap like that.

You know that heads were rolling in someone’s bodega after a screw up of that proportion.

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The day of and the days leading up to 4/20 typically create their own bounty of both pro and anti-marijuana press. This weekend was, however, a definite change of pace.

Cocaine news flooded the airwaves when the largest bust in maritime history was discovered.

Off the shores of Panama, the Coast Guard discovered about ~30,000 pounds of cocaine heading north on a 330-foot ship. When officers boarded the ship, they discovered the shipments hidden in two containers. This bust alone had a street value close to $450 million.

Earlier in the month, two other sea-based busts took place. One where a Coast Guard cutter chased down a speedboat with 2,000 pounds worth of yeyo. Another when 900 pounds of coke was found on an Ecuadorian fishing vessel. They were caught trying to offload the goods onto speedboats off the coast of Mexico.

Overall, a bad weekend for Tony Montana and crew.

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Hopefully, everyone read the Easter Grass article late last week.

It’s pretty impressive when people completely screw up at drug dealing, even when they prepare for police encounters. All Ian Lawrence had to do was drive legally. Assuming he wouldn’t be able to pull that off, he hid his weed in a damn Easter bunny.

The plan was flawless. The execution? Not quite as on point…

If you’re going to hide weed in your car, don’t leave some on the back seat. Oh and while you’re at it, try to take some preventative measures from having the entire car reek like dank. Police officers can be slow at times, but they’re not complete morons.

On top of the driving related charges against Ian, he was also tagged with possession of marijuana, operating a drug factory and possession with intent to sell within 1,500 feet of a school.

Ah well, at least Snuggles has been released from a life of servitude.

Melissa Byrum York, a drunk redneck Sylvania, Alabama resident, was charged with a DUI for riding her horse while intoxicated.

After riding in traffic and causing cars to avoid her, police were called into the equation. Feeling like there was more to be done, Melissa decided to evade police capture in style by ramming the police car with her horse while trying to escape.

Too bad she got her feet caught in the stirrups while trying to jump off the horse and run. Eh, not so smooth.

After being cuffed and searched, police found some of that magical riding powder known as crystal meth accompanied by some weed, pills and a pipe.

What a surprise that someone out drunkenly riding a horse in the middle of the night through city streets might have a small drug and a large reasoning problem.

Congratulation Melissa, you’re our first Official Dumbass of the Month.

[via Newsvine]

John Popper and his pal Brian Gourgeois were arrested in Washington state for driving 111 mph.

Ok, people speed, fair enough. Then they found that John likes to partake in marijuana, as they found a small amount of pot and a pipe in his car. Then they found out that John likes to shoot things, is afraid of an upcoming apocalypse and perhaps likes to hunt humans at night.

It’s cool to collect guns, but bringing enough fire power to arm a Ugandan warlord might just be pushing the envelope. When police officers had a drug dog search his SUV, they found:

• 4 rifles
• 9 handguns
• 1 switchblade
• 1 taser
• 1 pair of nightvision goggles
• flashing emergency headlights
• a siren
• a public address system

John informed police that he installed all of these items into his car in preparation for a natural disaster.

I don’t know what sort of natural disasters strike Washington state, but usually things like emergency rations, communications equipment, candles, generators and clothing are what people stockpile. Not rifles, tasers and nightvision goggles.

John’s car was impounded and the Washington state police are charging him with misdemeanors. Perhaps he’s giving them the “Run Around?”

[Photos via Washington State Patrol/AP]

It’s been a while since someone has straight-out qualified for our dumbass category, but this guy brings the game to a whole new level.

Instead of waiting for police to actually determine he was doing something illegal and then arrest him, the 54 year old driver (pictured above) decided to slam his Chevy Malibu into a police cruiser at 70 miles per hour.

After attending to the officer with minor injuries, police found 43 pounds of marijuana in his trunk. They also found a few smoked joints and trace amounts of cocaine. After everything was figured out, the driver was charged with possession of cocaine, driving under the influence and trafficking.

If there’s any lesson to be learned here by criminals, it has to be buy a redbull to keep yourself awake and don’t do cocaine while you’re driving. Dumbass.

[via Local 6]

Just in case we have any readers with serious delusions, this post shows that not everyone who smokes pot is a mellow do-gooder.

Mitchell Johnson (crazy looking kid #1) and Justin Trammell (crazy looking kid #2) were arrested early January in northwestern Arkansas with weed and a loaded gun.

Why did I bold the loaded gun part instead of the usual drug terms? Maybe because each one of these guys has been convicted of seriously violent crimes and neither one of them is 25 years old yet.

Mitchell Johnson was one of the two kids convicted in the 1998 Jonesboro school massacre. Mitchell and a classmate shot and killed 5 people and wounded 15 others. Their sentence? Confinement until the age of 21 - a punishment that absolutely doesn’t fit the crime.

Our other contestant, Justin Trammell, was convicted of murdering his father with a crossbow in 1999.

This is pretty much the definition of a gruesome twosome and all of us are lucky they’re off the streets before anyone could be hurt or killed. In this case only, I’m glad the drugs I try to protect will aid in adding jail time to some well deserved prison sentences.

[via Washington County Sherriff's Office/AP]

When I saw the familiar shape of letters grouped together, creating the name Mike Tyson, I got a warm feeling that reminded me of my childhood. Jail sentences, chomped off ears, unforgettable quotes and more - good ol’ Mike has always had a place in my heart.

This time, Mike didn’t do anything outlandish like stomp on the hood of some passer-by’s car. He just came close to crashing into a sherriff’s vehicle and then got arrested for driving impaired and possession of cocaine.

The irony is that the jail he was brought to was the same jail that he had done previous anti-drug work with juvenile offenders.

With that said, all the major news outlets are covering this story, so why not bring out the brighter side of Mike Tyson?

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An agent staking out the warehouse the truck departed, entered in hopes of finding the owner when he discovered a few bales of weed inside.

Following further investigation, law enforcement were delighted when they found (and later seized) $20 - $40 million worth of marijuana cargo in the trailer. And to think, this all could’ve been diverted if Louis just had his damn headlights on at 10pm at night; they would’ve had no right to pull him over otherwise.

Charged with possession of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, it doesn’t sound like Louis has much of a defense case - which ultimately means a long, long jail sentence.

Lt. J.D. Glesmann with the Sheriff Department’s Covert Operations Unit stated:

I’ve been in narcotics (division) since ‘93 and I’ve never seen a load of marijuana as big as this.

I guess that means this was big?

The bales of weed were packaged incognito-style, wrapped in plastic and coated in calcium carbonate to diffuse smell and placed in wooden crates, covered in coal. Lastly, the crates were labeled with car makes and numbers, most likely to be used for national distribution.

Obviously, this was the work of professionals and someone, somewhere is having a really bad day.

[via Houston Chronicle]

NFL drop-out quarterback Quincy Carter was arrested on marijuana possession early this morning. After starting all the games he played for the Cowboys, Quincy’s stock dropped quickly in 2004 with a failed drug test and substance-abuse issues.

Police were called when a woman phoned them and reported that he was “disruptive” inside her home. When the officers arrived he was in possession of less than 2 ounces of marijuana. That could be 2 grams or a half ounce, so no one knows how much he really had on him.

Still, looks like NBA and NFL players are getting in on the arrestee action this year.

[via ESPN]