Next time, litter
Via Unknown News comes this:
A Nashua man has been sentenced to 6.5 years in prison after city workers found crumbs of marijuana in his trash and called police.
Steven Montbleau, 32, pleaded guilty to possession of marijuana with the intention of selling it.
Police found 161 pounds of marijuana in Montbleau’s basement and $182,000 in his bedroom closet after being tipped off by two public works employees in August 2002.
The trash haulers said several garbage bags that Montbleau threw onto their truck smelled, so they stopped to check them out. They said they found bits of what appeared to be marijuana, so they called police. Officers got a search warrant and found the other drugs.
Big Brother is going through trash. Wouldn’t a city worker going through your garbage be an unwarranted search and seizure?
October 16th, 2003 at 4:12 pm
Not really. Once you’ve abandoned it on the curb, the assumption is that it’s not longer private. Plus, the trash workers aren’t police, and they *did* smell something.
October 16th, 2003 at 4:17 pm
The trash workers are also government employees. The constitution doesn’t say just police 🙂
As far as abandoning it on the curb, you havea point.
October 16th, 2003 at 4:27 pm
Yes, but after you abandon it, it is no longer your property…
October 17th, 2003 at 9:48 am
I am surprised the workers didn’t just get high. Clearly, that would be the case here.
October 17th, 2003 at 10:53 am
$182,000? I’m in the wrong line of business. Why, in my current job, it would take me more than a week to earn that much money.
A lot more.