Man Strolling With Pot Plants Busted

[Gormy Cuss]

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Friday, September 22, 2006

(09-22) 18:03 PDT Des Moines, Iowa (AP) --

Aaron Janssen made it way too easy. Janssen, 36, was arrested on marijuana charges Thursday, after he was spotted taking a leisurely stroll through downtown, carrying his recently harvested pot plants.

Polk County Chief Deputy Mark Burdock said he did a double-take when he looked out his office window at the county jail and saw Janssen walking down the sidewalk, carrying his freshly harvested crop.

"I look out the window ... , and I see him walking north carrying a green leafy substance, all pulled up by its roots," Burdock said. "He was carrying it like you'd carry a bundle of presents. It was tall enough where he was looking over the top of them, and he's just walking like nothing's going on."

Burdock said he went outside and yelled at Janssen, who walked right over to him, still carrying the plants. Janssen said the plants were part of his marijuana grown near the Des Moines River, but wouldn't say exactly where, Burdock said.

Deputies also found two two-pound bags of processed marijuana strapped to each of Janssen's legs, and a third wrapped in a sweater. Burdock said the marijuana had an estimated street value of about $2,000.

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The Des Moines Register

www.desmoinesregister.com

[GOPisEvil]

1. Yeah, I planted some coca plants in the front flower bed. Whatsittoya?

What a dumbass. At least have the sense to run.

[Monk06]

2. First rule of Grow Op. Do not smoke product while making deliveries.

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. !

:spray:

[evlbstrd]

3. Get a small used truck.

And a tarp.
And a clue.
When you get out.

[pink-o]

4. Is it because it was Iowa?

...20 years ago, I got on a Muni bus on Market Street (downtown San Francisco) and there was a guy getting of the bus with a small plastic wastebasket that had a beautiful, flowering pot plant growing out of it. He just sailed by all of us as our jaws hit the pavement.

He never got arrested. But I bet he got mugged a few blocks later!

[Gormy Cuss]

5. That story reminded me of the Star Trek movie scene

where the captain and Mr. Spock ride a MUNI bus and no one stares at them. ;)

[pink-o]

6. Yeah, that was a perfect scene!!

The driver really would've thrown them off for not having "exact change". And when Spock pinches the punk-rocker to shut off his boom box--we natives were howling. Whoever came up with that totally understood Life on Muni!!

[Drum]

7. Does it help to walk them?

I've heard that.
:evilgrin:

[Debi]

8. OMG - Iowa's best criminals! n/t