I am a 19 year old college student in Ohio.
Last night I went home so I could harvest 2 plants I had growing outside. I parked my car down the street and got out and walked to the spot which is about a mile walk. I ended up getting two very shitty plants. The total weight couldn't have been over 100 grams, which is a felony in my state.....
I guess while I was walking some one called the tags in off my car to the sherriff's office. I get the weed in a backpack and i put it in my tunk and went home, not really thinking anything else about it.
About an hour later, my mother asks me why there is a sheriff in our dirveway..... Oh fuck.... He was pulled up right behind the car with the weed in the trunk.
He instantly asks is this "_______ ______". He tells me that someone reported my vehicle and that a person was walking down the street with a back pack. At this time I am pretty paniced, and I know I could have handled the situation a lot diffrently then how I did. But I was soooo scared and caught off guard.
So he asks me if I had a backpack. Obviously I was in the area so I told him that yes I had a backpack but I was just walking a long the creek looking for good places to fish.... It was the only reason I could come up with. So he asks me where is the backpack?I told him I left it at a freinds. He asks for this friends # so he can veriffy I was over there and actually calls them up but can't get a hold of them.
Fianlly he asks if he can search the vehicle. I don't know why, but I said yes. I know I should have said no, but my mom was watching the whole time and I was just so paniced I didn't have time to think.
He doesn't go in the vehicle just shines his light in the windows then asks me to open up the trunk (which has the backpack with weed in it). I opened the trunk and of course there is an instant smell of fresh weed and it was pretty much over from here.
He took a picture of the trunk / backpack. And then confiscated it.
He said that they were really busy tonight and he wasn't going to charge me till later. He said that the weed would be sent to a lab where it would be dried, and then when the results would be sent back I would then be charged. He said that the sheriffs office would call me to let me know I had been charged but then it was my repsonsibility to turn myself in to be booked.
The charges he said were likely would be possesion of marijuana and parephenillia, I guess the backpack was parephenillia. I don't know when I will be charged but he said it could take a few weeks, I'm still confused about all of this....
Pretty much I'm asking for any advice anyone has to offer.
Last year ( I was 18) I got caught with possesion and parephenillia as well, so that will defiantley impact this, no? My loans were an issue at the time, but the prosecutor offered some type of plea that wouldn't charge me with drug posession per say.... so it wouldn't affect the loans. But I feel like that was my one free card and now I'm really in toruble.
I'm so scared if I loose my federal loans I don't know what I will do for college. I can't beleive I put my family thorugh this, and how arrogant I was. There are a million "what-ifs" going through my head, not that they will do any good.
I spent this morning calling lawyers from the phone book but no one answered so I left a few messages. I have no idea really what to expect in all this. Legally I may be an adult but I'm not going to lie to myself I feel like a little kid way way way over my head, and I don't know what to do. I was such an idiot in all of this I know I borught it upon myslef, and I don't think I could have handled it much worse.
Please, if anyone has any advice I would like to hear it. Or if you need any more info let me know.
Thank you for your time.
Last night I went home so I could harvest 2 plants I had growing outside. I parked my car down the street and got out and walked to the spot which is about a mile walk. I ended up getting two very shitty plants. The total weight couldn't have been over 100 grams, which is a felony in my state.....
I guess while I was walking some one called the tags in off my car to the sherriff's office. I get the weed in a backpack and i put it in my tunk and went home, not really thinking anything else about it.
About an hour later, my mother asks me why there is a sheriff in our dirveway..... Oh fuck.... He was pulled up right behind the car with the weed in the trunk.
He instantly asks is this "_______ ______". He tells me that someone reported my vehicle and that a person was walking down the street with a back pack. At this time I am pretty paniced, and I know I could have handled the situation a lot diffrently then how I did. But I was soooo scared and caught off guard.
So he asks me if I had a backpack. Obviously I was in the area so I told him that yes I had a backpack but I was just walking a long the creek looking for good places to fish.... It was the only reason I could come up with. So he asks me where is the backpack?I told him I left it at a freinds. He asks for this friends # so he can veriffy I was over there and actually calls them up but can't get a hold of them.
Fianlly he asks if he can search the vehicle. I don't know why, but I said yes. I know I should have said no, but my mom was watching the whole time and I was just so paniced I didn't have time to think.
He doesn't go in the vehicle just shines his light in the windows then asks me to open up the trunk (which has the backpack with weed in it). I opened the trunk and of course there is an instant smell of fresh weed and it was pretty much over from here.
He took a picture of the trunk / backpack. And then confiscated it.
He said that they were really busy tonight and he wasn't going to charge me till later. He said that the weed would be sent to a lab where it would be dried, and then when the results would be sent back I would then be charged. He said that the sheriffs office would call me to let me know I had been charged but then it was my repsonsibility to turn myself in to be booked.
The charges he said were likely would be possesion of marijuana and parephenillia, I guess the backpack was parephenillia. I don't know when I will be charged but he said it could take a few weeks, I'm still confused about all of this....
Pretty much I'm asking for any advice anyone has to offer.
Last year ( I was 18) I got caught with possesion and parephenillia as well, so that will defiantley impact this, no? My loans were an issue at the time, but the prosecutor offered some type of plea that wouldn't charge me with drug posession per say.... so it wouldn't affect the loans. But I feel like that was my one free card and now I'm really in toruble.
I'm so scared if I loose my federal loans I don't know what I will do for college. I can't beleive I put my family thorugh this, and how arrogant I was. There are a million "what-ifs" going through my head, not that they will do any good.
I spent this morning calling lawyers from the phone book but no one answered so I left a few messages. I have no idea really what to expect in all this. Legally I may be an adult but I'm not going to lie to myself I feel like a little kid way way way over my head, and I don't know what to do. I was such an idiot in all of this I know I borught it upon myslef, and I don't think I could have handled it much worse.
Please, if anyone has any advice I would like to hear it. Or if you need any more info let me know.
Thank you for your time.
