Detained but not arrested???? Must be nice to be a sports figure.

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A 2.5-pound shipment of marijuana was seized at the home of Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Jerome Simpson(notes) on Wednesday.

Bengals tackle Anthony Collins(notes) was with Simpson at the Crestview Hills, Ky., house when police confiscated the package. A spokeswoman for the California Department of Justice said police tracked the shipment from California after a two-day investigation.

A woman, Aleen Smith, signed for the package before police swooped in. Simpson gave consent for authorities to search his home, where they found six additional pounds of marijuana and paraphernalia including "packaging materials, scales and smoking devices."

Simpson and Collins were detained but not arrested. The case will be addressed by the Kenton County (Ky.) Prosecutor's Office on Thursday.

The head of the National Marijuana Initiative, a government-funded organization that coordinates marijuana enforcement, told Californiawatch.org that the home was set up as a distribution network. "They had it all set up to receive supplies of high-grade marijuana from Northern California, and from there, it was being distributed from that residence," Tommy LaNier told the website.
 
I'm sure you or I would be in a cell right now if anything close to that happened to us.

While I personally think Marijuana should be legal, currently it isn't. Somebody is probably going to do some serious jail time over this. But I have a feeling it won't be the player, even though he owns the home where all of this stuff was found. Money and fame will probably help him out a lot in this situation as it almost always does. You or I would be a cellmate of Bubba The Love Sponge for at least a year for something like this.

Anybody else not surprised that this is a Bengals player? :rolleyes:
 
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