Former Champion Downhill Racer Faces Uphill Battle
June 22nd, 2009 by Rick
Melissa “Missy” Giove, 37, a retired multiple times champion in downhill mountainbike racing, was arrested last week near Saratoga Lake in NY, after being pulled over driving a truck and trailer, hauling around 220 pounds of marijuana.
Authorities caught wind of the plan when Illinois State Police had pulled over the same truck and trailer before Giove obtained it. After converting the female driver into a confidential informant, authorities completed the delivery to the Albany, NY area, where Giove then took over.
Giove then drove to the residence of 30-year old Eric Canori in Wilton, NY and unloaded some of the marijuana. After Giove’s arrest, Canori was arrested at home, where they located 150 pounds of marijuana and $1m in cash in his closet and basement.
At a detention hearing last Thursday, Canori was held on a $500,000 bail and both were ordered to surrender their passports. Their public defender, Tim Austin, had said that the drugs and money were planted.
