Florida man arrested in Dale County, police seize 160 pounds of marijuana

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By Greg Phillips

Published: July 8, 2008

Authorities arrested a Florida man Tuesday night after seizing 160 pounds of marijuana from his truck’s trailer, according to Capt. Antonio Gonzalez of the Houston County Sheriff’s Office.

Noah Jacob Kibbe, 34, of North Fort Myers, Fla., is being held without bond at the Dale County Jail for attempting to transport the marijuana, which has a street value of about $200,000, according to Capt. Ricky Peak of the Alabama State Troopers. The truck was heading south on U.S. 231 between Ozark and Dothan when police pulled it over.

“Everything’s kind of in an investigative status right now,” Peak said. “It was an ‘06 Dodge pickup truck pulling a trailer. Right now, we’re still trying to piece everything together.”

Peak said the arrest was a joint operation between the Alabama State Troopers, Highway Patrol, Alabama Bureau of Investigation, Houston County Sheriff’s Office, Dale County Sheriff’s Office and Dothan Police Department.

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Posted by ( Mike Keevert ) on July 11, 2008 at 11:18 pm

I bet Eddie Ingram is pissed that he didn’t get his name in the paper with this drug bust.

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Posted by ( jsknow ) on July 09, 2008 at 7:30 pm

Another great example of oppression and tyranny being alive and well in the USA.

It’s time to remove all the politicians that promote prohibition.
How many more lives have to be needlessly devastated or lost?
Prohibited drugs are way easier for kids to get than regulated drugs!
Prohibition never works it just causes crime and violence.
The year alcohol prohibition was repealed violent crime fell by 65 percent.

On March 22, 1972: The Richard Nixon-appointed, 13-member National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse recommended the decriminalization of marijuana, concluding, “[Marijuana’s] relative potential for harm to the vast majority of individual users and its actual impact on society does not justify a social policy designed to seek out and firmly punish those who use it.”

The USA spends $69 billion a year on the drug war, builds 900 new prison beds and hires 150 more correction officers every two weeks, arrests someone on a drug charge every 17 seconds, jails more people than any nation and has killed over 100,000 citizens in the drug war.

In 1914 when there were no prohibited drugs 1.3% of our population was addicted to drugs, today 1.3% of our population is still addicted to drugs but there’s way more crime and violence because of the huge profits prohibition generates. Drugs today are more potent, more readily available and often less expensive than they were in the early 70’s when Richard Nixon started the war on drugs. Every time you look at the news you see more and more drug busts involving bigger and bigger quantities of drugs, not less and less… doesn’t that call for change?

There’s only been one drug success story in US history, tobacco, by far the most deadly and one of the most addictive drugs. Almost half the users quit because of regulation, accurate information and medical treatment. No one went to jail and no one got killed.

Not one person in history has ever died from marijuana.
Many have died from its PROHIBITION.

1997 annual American deaths caused by drugs:
Tobacco ................ 400,000
Alcohol ................ 100,000
All Legal Drugs ......... 20,000
All Illegal Drugs ....... 15,000
Caffeine ................. 2,000
Aspirin .................... 500
Marijuana .................... 0
Source: United States Government,
National Institute On Drug Abuse,
Bureau Of Mortality Statistics.
Marijuana And Hemp The Untold Story

The right; to freedom of religion, free speech, a free press, to keep and bear arms, to be secure in your person, house, papers and effects against unreasonable search and seizure, to life, liberty and property, to be protected from having your property taken by the government without due process of law and without just compensation, to confront the witnesses against you, to be protected from excessive bail, excessive fines, cruel and unusual punishment, to vote and many others have been denied to millions of Americans in the name of the drug war.

If you are called for jury duty and you don’t agree with the law the person is charged with, you have the right to vote not guilty, no matter what evidence is produced. Jurors implementing this right in all non-violent drug cases will shut down the ridiculous laws of prohibition. One juror in each case is all it takes. The bottom line is a juror has the right to judge not only the accused person but the LAW the person is accused of breaking. Don’t be intimidated stick to your position Vote Not Guilty in all non-violent drug cases.

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