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July 15, 2008
Bad dancing in Sheboygan leads to pot arrest
Posted by Gary Storck
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
In a case reminiscent of the Seinfeld episode about Elaine’s odd dancing, “strange dancing” at Sheboygan’s Hispanic Fest has led to the filing of criminal charges against an 18 year old man.
The man was charged with two misdemeanor counts for possession of 2.6 grams of cannabis and a glass pipe. Wisconsin does not have a statewide marijuana decriminalization law, but most of the state’s most populous counties and many municipalities have adopted local ordinances where possession of amounts under 25 grams of cannabis, or less in some locales, or of paraphernalia, leads to the filing of civil charges – a ticket, rather than a criminal record.
In early 2007 in Dane County, the DA’s office established a threshold of charging all cases involving paraphernalia or under 25 grams of cannabis as a civil infraction, “Text of Dane County DA memo on new pot policy” click here.
Why are Sheboygan authorities wasting their time on this case? Was his dancing that bad?
Source: Associated Press
TUESDAY, July 15, 2008, 11:18 a.m.
Man's strange dancing leads to arrest
Sheboygan - A teenager whose strange dancing at a Sheboygan festival caught the attention of authorities is now facing drug charges.A criminal complaint says a security officer at Hispanic Fest on Saturday alerted a patrolling police officer about a man who was dancing strangely. The security officer thought the man was either drunk or high on drugs.
The complaint says the police officer noted the man smelled strongly of marijuana, then searched him and found 2.6 grams of marijuana and a glass pipe.
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Posted by Gary at July 15, 2008 03:37 PM
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