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Article: SWALLOWING JOINT A FELONY; SYRACUSE MAN CHARGED WITH TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE.(Local)(Column)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- August 9, 2008
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Byline: Robert A. Baker Staff writer
Smoking a joint in public could land you an appearance ticket, but swallowing that joint in front of the officer who would have written the ticket could get you arrested on felony charges.
George Ellmore, 51, of 201 Oxford St., Syracuse, learned that lesson firsthand Aug. 1, according to a Syracuse police arrest report.
Officer Richard Cunningham was on patrol about 3:30 p.m. when he said he saw Ellmore trying to light a marijuana cigarette at Bellevue and Midland avenues. Cunningham wrote that he was able to walk close enough to smell the marijuana burning.
Ellmore noticed Cunningham approaching, ...