Corie Blount arrested for felony drug possession

Former Sixers, Bulls, Suns, Raptors, Lakers, Warriors and Cavaliers big man Corie Blount was arrested and charged with felony marijuana possession.

The following quote is from WLWT.com, although pretty much everywhere is carrying the story:

The Butler County Sheriff's Office said Blount was arrested Thursday after taking possesion of a package mailed to him containing 11 pounds of marijuana.

The sheriff's office said deputies located a second package of 11 pounds of marijuana and a third package with seven pounds of marijuana at Blount's Liberty Township home.

What the article doesn't mention is Blount's minimal yet interesting history. In 1999, on Christmas Eve, Blount was pulled over for having tinted windows and no front number (license) plate. The police also seized the cash that Blount had on him, an impressive total of $19,435, and handed it to the DEA, after a K-9 unit smelled "drug residue" on it. Blount claimed that the money came from the sale of a car, and had to sue to get it back. No drugs were found on Blount or in the car, and he was not arrested or charged with anything. But the lesson, as always: don't go around with five figures worth of currency on you (unless it's Lira or Egyptian pounds), or people might get the wrong idea. And don't then get arrested nine years down the road for drug possession.

Still. (AND HERE'S THE PUNCHLINE!) You know what they say: Blount by name, blunt by nature!

(I'm ashamed of that joke and might kill myself.)


EDIT: I guess personal use is out of the question, then?

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