Hundreds of Newsoms residents to be without reefer this weekend
NEWSOMS- Anyone in The Home of the Jumbo Peanut hoping to get a little puff, puff, pass going this weekend will have to venture (carefully) to Boykins at the very least, as a giant “drug” bust in the Newsoms area has left hundreds of residents without their marijuana.
The bust, led by Troopers Stanley Johnson and Moe Parr, revealed a fledgling weed distribution network that stretched clear across the entire Statesville area. “We’d gotten word that a Newsoms man had rented each season of the television show Weeds from the local library,” said Trooper Parr. “From our familiarity with the series, we knew they were using the series to learn how to grow their own marijuana. We brought in the dogs, quickly tracked the perp to a stash house out in the sticks, and made our arrests. It was a textbook takedown.”