Drug Arrest During Routine Traffic Stop
Kenneth Harris Arrested On Drug Charges
A routine traffic stop in Unicoi County, Tennessee results in a drug arrest.
A Unicoi County Sheriff’s Deputy stopped Alton Norris from South Carolina for speeding on Interstate 26 near Flag Pond on March 29. During a search of the vehicle, the deputy found marijuana in the truck. The passenger, Kenneth Harris from South Carolina, admitted the marijuana was his and was planning to sell it to help pay his college tuition.
Harris was charged with possession of drugs with the intent to sell. Norris was charged with speeding and facilitating a felony.
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It saddens me that the unicoi county cops are such losers as to even have taken the guy in. But that’s the way these Barny Fife type clowns are.
It also saddens me to see yet another example of an idiot who happens to smoke pot.
You have weed in the car YOU DO NOT SPEED you brainless twit.
And unless the cops are lying about his sales admission, which they could very well be in Unicoi, Mr. Dreadlocks qualifies as the single dumbest dude in the history of Rastafari.
You get caught with pot and admit to selling it before you see a lawyer?
This cat must be studying to become a politician.
I wish there was a simple answer as you suggest. Most marijuana possession charges are misdemeanors that rarely get jail time. Most incarcerations involve much stronger drugs. I see it every day, the drugs are more important than their children, their homes, their jobs and their future. I’ve met people that I hoped and prayed would make it when they got out, none of them ever have. I don’t hope anymore. If marijuana were legalized, I don’t believe it would change the jail census by 1%, and I don’t feel strongly about it either way. If you are one of the ones who doesn’t do anything but smoke dope, you are one of the lucky ones.
Yet another prime example of why marijuana should be legalized. How long will we continue to justify imprisonment of people for “crimes” such as this. Here in the United States we have the highest incarceration rate in the world. While rates of violent crimes has fallen by 25 percent over the last 20 years, prison population has tripled. Prison is an industry that is largely funded by drug convictions. The ways we have been fighting the drug problem is not working. It costs an average of $23,876 to incarcerate an individual for one year and this was in 2005. You can multiply that by 2,310,984, which is the Dept. of Justice statistic, and see the astonishing cost. I am not advocating the legalization of all drugs. I am simply saying we need to go about it a different way.
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