Man Gets Busted Flying with 150 Pounds

[BKKG]

Man who flew plane loaded with pot sentenced to more than 5 years in prison
By ED TRELEVEN


An upstate New York native who took his wit and intelligence and tried to succeed in the Hollywood movie machine will spend five years in a federal prison for flying marijuana into Wisconsin aboard his private plane.
Iowa County authorities, acting on information from federal drug investigators, met Trevor Ryan’s plane when it landed at the remote airport near Mineral Point on Oct. 18. It was carrying about 157 pounds of high-grade marijuana worth almost an estimated $500,000.
Federal prosecutors said Ryan, 29, who was sentenced Tuesday to 65 months in prison, was motivated purely by greed.
But Ryan, of Ukiah, Calif., a frustrated movie screenwriter and comedian, said he grew and sold marijuana as part of a desperate scheme to fund a movie project.

Ryan’s attorney, Michelle Tjader, wrote in a sentencing memorandum that Ryan was a smart and successful student at Ithaca College in New York, then moved to Los Angeles. He worked as a receptionist and script reader for a production company connected to Warner Brothers, but failed to sell any scripts of his own.
Ryan wrote in a letter to U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb that as his career in Hollywood foundered, he became depressed and anxious.
“I slowly but surely went into a tailspin which culminated when I made the wrong and stupid decision to transport marijuana to Wisconsin,” Ryan wrote. “Somehow I’d convinced myself that I could raise money that way which would help me finance a film project I was interested in. The truth is — during that period — I let self-pity control me which is why I’m currently in custody.”
Crabb said that even though Ryan had no prior criminal record, she was concerned that he could re-offend. Her concern stemmed from Ryan’s purchase of the twin-engine Piper Aztec — the plane that he flew to Wisconsin — only months after his home near Los Angeles had been raided by federal authorities in January 2008, who found a marijuana growing operation and several weapons, among them a semi-automatic rifle.
Ryan told Crabb the marijuana he grew and sold in California was intended for the medical marijuana market, which is legal in California. As president of the Healing Collective, Tjader wrote, Ryan had legal status in California as a compassionate care provider.
But responding to questions from Crabb, Ryan admitted that the marijuana he grew did not stay in California and that he was not on a “humanitarian mission” to Wisconsin with his planeload of pot.

Link to the original article:
http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/442420

Here's a link to the article on the bust itself, I don't want to clutter up the post with two whole articles quoted.
http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=220466


I'm not even sure how to feel about this- that's a huge amount of pot, and not only did it get confiscated from him he has to spend 5 years in jail. He was taking a big risk, moving so much. I'm pretty curious where the tip came from though.

Here's a picture from the bust
Cop.jpg
That cop looks a little bit too happy, if you ask me

[lucidtouch]

looks like some mids

[ocp1998]

So he was trying to fund a movie by growing pot in cali while lying and saying the pot was for med patients? That is really not cool... i mean the dude bought a plane, how much more obvious can you be that you are nothing but a drug dealer.

[Bolthero]

that cop sure got a hard on after this bust, even though he did absolutely nothing but stop the plane on the ground.... the feds supplied the info and this ass gets the credit. Did he even need the dog with that much tree?

[SmokinBroccoli]

i would fucking pwn that cop

[StickyIckyRicky]

I like that they said he was "motivated purely by greed".

Really? So farmers then would be motivated by greed, because they grow and farm? Store-owners are motivated purely by greed, because they find a niche that people will pay them for and they take advantage of it?

[Parradoxx]

Almost everything we do has the motivation of money behind it in one way or another.
I wouldn't call it purely motivated by greed; thats a little too much of an assumption to me.

[COOOL]

Thats a cool looking K-9...looks like a cross of a German Shepard x Doberman Pinscher

[FuzzyNug]

A dude in La Crosse, Wisconsin Recently got busted with 80 Pounds of marijuana i'll scope out the article... (I would've been smoking from that 80 Pounds probally)

Here is the little article:


A La Crosse man is under arrest and faces federal charges after police find 80 pounds of marijuana and several hundred thousand dollars in a southside home.
La Crosse Police say 27-year-old Karl (last name here) was arrested February 11 at a home at (a street adress here)
In a joint investigation between La Crosse Police, the Wisconsin Department of Criminal Investigation and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, officers found 80 pounds of high-grade marijuana and $260,000 cash in the home.
(last name here again) faces charges of possession with intent to deliver, and will be prosecuted in federal court

[DrugTestsSuck]

Originally Posted by lucidtouch

looks like some mids

it said "high-grade marijuana"

[FuzzyNug]

Originally Posted by DrugTestsSuck

it said "high-grade marijuana"

It might be mids becuase the cops call shit differently i also heard they say the cost of the weed is actually alot less than what they say

[BakedInThe608]

That La Crosse dude was waaaay legit. been there

[MadScientist215]

Originally Posted by BKKG

That cop looks a little bit too happy, if you ask me

that's because he's humping that poor dog. who knows though, the dog may have started it by humping first. doubtful though, he is a pig.