Man accused of using casket sans cadaver to smuggle marijuana in Dallas

[marmar]

via CBC News:



US man accused of using casket sans cadaver to smuggle marijuana in Dallas
Published: Friday, June 26, 2009 | 12:57 PM ET

Canadian Press THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


DALLAS - A casket without a cadaver yielded nearly 100 pounds (45 kilograms) of marijuana after a traffic stop in Dallas.

William Dale Crock of Cave City, Arkansas, was in jail Friday on a marijuana possession charge, plus traffic violations.

Dallas police say Crock was arrested Wednesday when bundles of marijuana were discovered under the casket's cover and pillow.

Sr. Cpl. Kevin Janse said the van turned up during surveillance on a suspected drug house. Police stopped the van, after noticing Crock was not wearing a seat belt. Officers also said he allegedly ran a red light and did an improper lane change.

A drug-sniffing dog alerted officers to the casket in the van.

There were no records available listing a lawyer representing Crock.


http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/090626/K062604AU.html

[aquart]

1. Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.

[havocmom]

3. Seems like plot to movie or TV show a while back

Damn, even the criminals are in summer re-runs. x(

[Historic NY]

2. He used a van, come on get a hearse.

[malaise]

4. A lot of guns come into Jamaica that way

People send home bodies and beneath the bodies are weapons to kill some more people.

[Ghost in the Machine]

6. A lot of guns and other ordnance were smuggled by the aryan brotherhood lie that, too

... straight out of Iraq during Desert Storm... it still happens as we speak...

[notesdev]

5. better than 'avec cadaver', I suppose -nt