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GlassMan

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Posted: Dec. 01 2006,10:24 am |
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Bingo-playing grandma guilty in pot case
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.
"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.
It's a fact of Life:
After Monday and Tuesday, even the Calendar says : WTF .......
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Posted: Dec. 01 2006,2:45 pm |
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Severe case of Glaucoma for sure.... Poor girl couldn't read the cards....
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Posted: Dec. 01 2006,8:51 pm |
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| Quote (Carrera Elite @ Dec. 01 2006,3:34 pm) | | She hauls more drugs, so she has more money, so she can play more bingo to win more money, to buy more drugs.......... |
And round and round it goes!..
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GoFastRacer

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Posted: Dec. 03 2006,7:24 am |
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| Quote (lawbreaker2 @ Dec. 02 2006,5:07 am) | | Yah, but between her and snoop, they could corner the market and make a killing at the bigo hall. |
There ya go!..
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