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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Dec 2, 2006 22:30:55 GMT -5
SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. - A grandmother found with a trunkful of marijuana was convicted of drug running in what prosecutors said was an attempt to earn cash for a bingo habit.
State troopers found 10 bundles of pot totaling 214 pounds hidden in Leticia Villareal Garcia’s car trunk last year when they stopped her outside Bisbee, in far southeastern Arizona.
Villareal, 61, told jurors before they convicted her Thursday that her only regular income was a $275 monthly welfare check, but she frequently played bingo and occasionally won thousands of dollars.
Prosecutor Doyle Johnstun said the game was Villareal’s undoing.
‘She’s got a bingo problem’ “People who play bingo almost every night of the week end up losing in the long run,” Johnstun told jurors. “The underlying issue is that she’s got a bingo problem, which explains why an otherwise nice person might get sucked into something like this.”
Jurors rejected Villareal’s argument that she’d been tricked into carrying the drugs.
Villareal faces three to 12 years in state prison when she is sentenced Dec. 18.
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Post by Scott on Dec 3, 2006 0:00:08 GMT -5
214 pounds? Granny had some good connections. Well...I sure hope they go ahead and give her the 12 years max sentence. Marijuana, and Bingo? That's some pretty serious sh*t right there.
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Post by kim on Dec 3, 2006 13:33:02 GMT -5
I don't think Granny's got a Bingo problem as much as she has a poor business acumen... With 214 pounds of pot, all Granny needed was a discreet dealer to "move" that cash crop real quick for her and she wouldn't have to worry about playing Bingo to supplement her income ever again. With that kinda dough she coulda opened up a Granny's Bingo franchise. ;D Thanks Kim
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Post by Scott on Dec 3, 2006 23:13:31 GMT -5
With that kinda dough she coulda opened up a Granny's Bingo franchise. ;D She should have combined the two. Granny's Bong & Bingo. I-17! Bingo!
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