Feds: Home of Bengals' Jerome Simpson a pot distribution center

[Auggie]

NFL.com / 9-22-2011

Police said a package containing 2 1/2 pounds of marijuana was delivered from Eureka, Calif., to the suburban Kentucky home of Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Jerome Simpson on Tuesday, where authorities say they conducted a search and found six more pounds of marijuana inside.

Michelle Gregory, spokeswoman for the California Department of Justice, confirmed to the Cincinnati Enquirer a report published by CaliforniaWatch.org, a group of investigative journalists, on Wednesday night, which detailed the operation. It was initiated by a special marijuana task force after agents discovered a suspicious package at a commercial sorting facility in Sacramento.

Simpson's teammate, offensive tackle Anthony Collins, was also present when a woman, identified as Aleen Smith, 27, accepted the package on Tuesday. All three were questioned at the residence, but no arrests were made at the time.

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"The house was set up as a potential distribution network," said Tommy LaNier, head of the National Marijuana Initiative, a group that is funded by the Office of National Drug Control Policy and helps coordinate marijuana enforcement operations around the United States. "They had it all set up to receive supplies of high-grade marijuana from Northern California, and from there, it was being distributed from that residence," LaNier told California Watch.

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Simpson is earning $555,000 this year; due to be a free agent in 2012. :dunce:

Contract link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pFbmJDOJH7AJ:www.rotoworld.com/player/NFL/4859/Jerome-Simpson+Jerome+Simpson+contracts&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari

[joeybee12]

1. Thank God the feds are on top of this!

Glad to see my tax money spent so wisely!

Do I really need this? :sarcasm:

[Auggie]

3. I wonder what the distribution laws in Kentucky are...

this dude could face serious jail time.

On edit: From NORML...

Sale or trafficking: 8 oz to 5 lbs (Felony), 1-5 years + $1,000-$10,000 fine. 5 lbs or more (Felony), 5-10 years + $1,000-$10,000 fine.
LINK: http://norml.org/pdf_files/state_penalties/NORML_KY_State_Penalties.pdf

It's idiotic to send pot through the mail.

[Upton]

2. The War on Drugs sucks..

[era veteran]

4. Should have just got some local outdoor weed.

Great pot, so I'm told, has been here for 35 years. That's how all the new silos get built and all the new tractors bought. Hemp was grown in the Bluegrass during WW2. When I was a kid it grew wild everywhere. Now all of that is gone and they grow smoking weed not rope weed. Sending weed through the mail is so '80's.

[rpannier]

5. due to be a free agent in 2012

or sooner
The Bengals may just cut him
Another annoying bad draft/sign by the Bungles