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He's busted during chat with a deputy
Tuesday, July 27, 2004By Paul Rioux
St. Tammany bureau
It's a classic case of the "pot" calling the kettle black.
A Slidell man who struck up a conversation with a sheriff's deputy about dumb criminals was cited when the deputy spotted a bag of marijuana protruding from his pocket, authorities said.
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<script language="JavaScript"></script> <noscript>[url="http://ads.nola.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.ads/www.nola.com/xml/story/N/NZNPMT/@StoryAd?x"]http://ads.nola.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.ads/www.nola.com/xml/story/N/NZNPMT/@StoryAd?x[/url] </noscript> The uniformed sheriff's deputy was at the Exxon station at 101 S. Military Road near Slidell on Saturday about 1 a.m. when a man walked up to him at the soda fountain, St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office spokesman James Hartman said.
The man asked the deputy how busy he was and remarked, "There are some stupid people out there," Hartman said.
As they talked, the deputy noticed a plastic bag protruding from a pocket of the man's cargo pants.
When the deputy asked what was in the pocket, the man said it was empty. But the deputy persisted and asked him what was in the bag, Hartman said.
"At that point, the red-faced culprit produced a small bag of marijuana and surrendered it to the deputy, who said, 'What was that you were saying about stupid people?' " Hartman said in a written news release.
The man, identified as Jesse R. Bryant, 21, of 165 Little Oak Lane, was issued a summons to appear in court on a charge of simple possession of marijuana.
"Then the deputy went out to deal with more 'stupid people,' most of whom aren't as helpful as Mr. Bryant in exposing their own misdeeds," Hartman said.
Tuesday, July 27, 2004By Paul Rioux
St. Tammany bureau
It's a classic case of the "pot" calling the kettle black.
A Slidell man who struck up a conversation with a sheriff's deputy about dumb criminals was cited when the deputy spotted a bag of marijuana protruding from his pocket, authorities said.
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<script language="JavaScript"></script> <noscript>[url="http://ads.nola.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.ads/www.nola.com/xml/story/N/NZNPMT/@StoryAd?x"]http://ads.nola.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.ads/www.nola.com/xml/story/N/NZNPMT/@StoryAd?x[/url] </noscript> The uniformed sheriff's deputy was at the Exxon station at 101 S. Military Road near Slidell on Saturday about 1 a.m. when a man walked up to him at the soda fountain, St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office spokesman James Hartman said. The man asked the deputy how busy he was and remarked, "There are some stupid people out there," Hartman said.
As they talked, the deputy noticed a plastic bag protruding from a pocket of the man's cargo pants.
When the deputy asked what was in the pocket, the man said it was empty. But the deputy persisted and asked him what was in the bag, Hartman said.
"At that point, the red-faced culprit produced a small bag of marijuana and surrendered it to the deputy, who said, 'What was that you were saying about stupid people?' " Hartman said in a written news release.
The man, identified as Jesse R. Bryant, 21, of 165 Little Oak Lane, was issued a summons to appear in court on a charge of simple possession of marijuana.
"Then the deputy went out to deal with more 'stupid people,' most of whom aren't as helpful as Mr. Bryant in exposing their own misdeeds," Hartman said.