Reggae Star Busted With 350 Pounds of Pot in NYC...

RetroGrow · Sep 16, 2011

Read the comments below the story. Looks like some members here were commenting, including a Joe Rogan "alias", or maybe it's him. First article I've seen where they didn't exaggerate the value of the herb. One guy commented that 300 pounds was only one blunt for a Jamaican

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/NYC-Traffic-Stop-300-Pounds-of-Pot-129926013.html

A routine traffic stop led police to a 300-pound stash of marijuana in the Bronx.

Detectives noticed a strong odor of marijuana coming from a car they stopped on Wednesday afternoon. Police say there were two bags containing about 25 pounds of marijuana in the trunk.

The driver, 66-year-old Denroy Morgan, a Jamaican reggae artist from Springfield, Mass., was arrested.

But that wasn't all. Further investigation led to a house nearby on Taylor Avenue.

Police arrested a man seen leaving the house. They say 46-year-old Wayne Swavy of Mount Vernon, N.Y. had 16 pounds of pot in his car.

But the big find was inside the house. Police say they found 300 pounds of marijuana there, which could be worth anywhere from $120,000 to $300,000 depending on quality.

Defense attorney information wasn't immediately available.

Morgan created the Black Eagles reggae band in New York City in 1974. The peak of his career came a decade later when he signed with RCA Records.

He had one hit song: "I'll Do Anything for You."

Yes4Prop215 · Sep 19, 2011

traffic stops are so dangerous....the smallest thing like a license plate light being out can lead to your whole operation gettin raided..

supermanlives · Sep 19, 2011

you gotta be extra careful when transporting.its allot harder if you look shady. prob dwb

Bionic · Sep 19, 2011

That's a few blocks away from where I grew up! LOL! Since I'm familiar with the terrain, I'm gonna go ahead and say it was some straight schwag. I'm sure more than half that weight is seeds and stems. Rarely, if ever, was it better than that.

huligun · Sep 19, 2011

Even if you don't drive someone driving to you can get busted and flip. It's a dangerous world we live in.

Schwag doesn't have the strong smell the police were describing no?

BigDawg · Sep 19, 2011

guess the address on his license or car registration led them to the house.. unless he snitched

cjk · Sep 19, 2011

huligun said:
Even if you don't drive someone driving to you can get busted and flip. It's a dangerous world we live in.

Schwag doesn't have the strong smell the police were describing no?

shwag or not, 25 pounds is gonna reek...

stihgnobevoli · Sep 19, 2011

huligun said:
Schwag doesn't have the strong smell the police were describing no?

25 pound of the shittiest weed in the universe will still have "a strong odor of marijuana."

sucks about this guy getting busted, now he will spend the rest of his life in prison. for harmless plants that naturally grow out of the ground on the planet we all 'woke up on one day' really retarded that people just sit back and let a few people dictate their lives to them when none of us are any more powerful or knowledgeable than the other when it comes to who we are and what we're doing.

BigDawg · Sep 19, 2011

here's a link to his 1981 hit song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVTEEeOEfKw

RollmeoneKenobi · Sep 19, 2011

Suxxor a traffic stop leads to a whole operation going down.

RetroGrow · Sep 20, 2011

Doubt if it was schwag. These reggae dudes know their herb.
It was probably smuggled from Jamaica though.
I used to play that game, long ago.
What's surprising is the cops didn't exaggerate the value a hundred fold as they usually do.

MtnLivin · Sep 20, 2011

120k for 350 pounds? Schwag..

RetroGrow · Sep 20, 2011

They said $100,000-$300,000.
But since when did the cops stop exaggerating the value of the herb, and since when did they start grading it?

pearlemae · Sep 20, 2011

The guy driving the car was one dumb SOB. The article said he was stopped for running a stop sign( stupid move #2 ), and for not wearing his seat belt(stupid move #1). How incredibly stoooppid do you have to be to run a stop sign with 25 lbs of weed. This guy is proof that some people are a waste of air. I'm sorry but I don't have much sympathy for stupidity. You are only supposed to break one law at a time. The weed was his one.

RetroGrow · Sep 20, 2011

Bionic said:
That's a few blocks away from where I grew up! LOL! Since I'm familiar with the terrain, I'm gonna go ahead and say it was some straight schwag. I'm sure more than half that weight is seeds and stems. Rarely, if ever, was it better than that.

I went to high school in the Bronx....rough neighborhood.

DiscoBiscuit · Sep 20, 2011

pearlemae said:
The guy driving the car was one dumb SOB. The article said he was stopped for running a stop sign( stupid move #2 ), and for not wearing his seat belt(stupid move #1). How incredibly stoooppid do you have to be to run a stop sign with 25 lbs of weed. This guy is proof that some people are a waste of air. I'm sorry but I don't have much sympathy for stupidity. You are only supposed to break one law at a time. The weed was his one.

Hell yeah. Check all lights etc and no moving violations. So easy a kid could do it.

Bionic · Sep 20, 2011

RetroGrow said:
I went to high school in the Bronx....rough neighborhood.

Which?

LiLWaynE · Sep 20, 2011

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LiLWaynE · Sep 20, 2011

thats hllarious that they said it was a "Random stop"....

my fucking ASS... fucking pigs saw the dreads and the rasta caps and people driving slow as fuck out of the driveway and did the fuckin math!

this fucking country disgusts me

...i seriously looked this dudes song up and had it playing in the background as i read this thread... fucking fucked up and funny at the same time....... god damn am i stoned right now!

cant fucking believe marjiuana is still listed as a schedule 1 drug in this country..........fucking joke.....

this dude prob sold 300lbs a fucking day! theyill get out of jail with some money to spend! perhaps theyll hire a good lawyer with the cash they hopefully have stashed properly...

meduser180056 · Sep 20, 2011

Wow that sucks these guys came thru humboldt sometimes morgan heritage or something like that. cool band. Guy that got popped is like the grandpa of the family. They were pretty cool people from what I remember my buddy sat in playing the nyabhingi with em at a show.

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