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A Traffic Accident On 4/20 Turns Into A Drug Bust, With 500 Pounds Of Weed Strewn Over The Highway
A Traffic Accident On 4/20 Turns Into A Drug Bust, With 500 Pounds Of Weed Strewn Over The Highway-April 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:12:07

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A pickup truck carrying 500 pounds of was caught in a pile-up on the interstate in on Wednesday, . The pickup slammed into the back of a commercial truck, which had swerved to avoid yet another further east along I-70, according to the . Then, another big rig slammed into that pickup and scattered its precious cargo of a quarter-ton of weed all over the highway. Please insert 4/20 Blaze It! joke here.

Look, if even the gets to make 4/20 jokes, then so do we! I will note, however, that the MSHP no one was badly injured in the crash. But I suspect a few other parties were affected negatively in the aftermath, after troopers seized — what with all the missed deliveries.

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The 4/20 mishap resulted in at least . Two of the three people who were in the truck full of weed were charged with first-degree felonies for drug trafficking, on top of another charge for the driver who was accused of causing the crash. Talk about bad luck! Well, for the folks in the pickup, anyway.

For the troopers, though, it seems like the luckiest drug bust on what’s likely a busy day in the ongoing U.S. . Come on, people, it’s just weed. The most egregious offense here, I think, is that the big rig driver who rear-ended the pickup truck had no insurance. A barreling down the road without liability is just irresponsible!

The Missouri Highway Patrol the pickup as a 2007 . The driver of the ‘07 Sierra was also uninsured, possibly because the truck’s occupants are Mexican nationals, according to arrest reports.

And what is it with GM trucks being the vehicle of choice for a few of these incidents? Last year, police in caught a Chevy Silverado and Tahoe with a whole lot of weed. That bust was for a large amount of in an earlier stage of packaging, unlike the stash that now sits in an MSHP evidence locker.

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