Worthington man sentenced for his part in marijuana shipment
February 15, 2011 at 3:59 pm in Worthington Daily Globe
WORTHINGTON A Worthington man who pleaded guilty in January to possession of 10 kilos or more of marijuana from a 2008 arrest was sentenced Tuesday to 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.
The actual sentence is for 27 months with the Minnesota Department of Correction, but that sentence is stayed with the condition that Fernando Dominguez, 38, serve 90 days in jail, with credit for the 40 days he has already served. Continue Reading
What a waste of jail space that could be used for violent and or dangerous criminals and a waste of good police and court time and money. Marijuana is legal medicine in at least 15 states with it becoming more and more accepted all the time. Marijuana is safer then aspirin.
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10 Kilos and you get 90 days in jail? What a freaking joke! I tend to agree with Naughtydog, how many $$$ were wasted giving this lovely addition to our community, 90 days in jail. Our legal system and this town is out of control. Shootings, drugs, assaults ect. And we wonder why our young people are moving away as fast as they can.
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This guy isn’t the most upstanding citizen in the community, for sure! But he was given due process, and his legal rights were protected, and he was sentenced. (You’d want the same protections for yourself or someone you care about.) The sentence seems to me a bit light – but I’m not in a position to second-guess a prosecutor or judge — so I’ll accept what I can’t change. Young people may be moving away “as fast as they can”, but where are they going for the most part? To bigger cities, for a variety of reasons and opportunities. What do big cities also have? Far more shootings, drugs and assaults! We don’t have it so bad here.
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This guy living in my community doesn’t bother me one bit. If I got to pick my neighbor and it was him or a drunk, I’d pick him. He probably has a good stash of Doritos and he’s likely to share.
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Meh. It’s only pot. The legal system doesn’t view marijuana as a serious problem, that’s why the light sentence. Thing is, this guy is taking up space in jail where violent offenders should be and some lawyers made some pretty easy money “convicting” him. We should just go ahead and pass some medical marijuana legislation and stop wasting everyone’s time. It’s those violent people that worry me. This guy probably has the munchies and hurts no one.
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Ahhh, 82 pounds? My math comes up with a street value north of $314,000.00. Ahhh, who has it now? Might be a better idea to sell it and start a fund for a real community pool or something. “I’m not in a position to second-guess a prosecutor or judge — so I’ll accept what I can’t change.” That attitude is what has come close to destroying this country! Time to get that old wheel squeaking. If it ain’t right or it don’t work, squeak squeak squeak, louder and louder! I remember when pot residue could get you 30 years and did! I know people who spent 10 years for less then will get you a $200 fine today. Totally ruined their lives. Our legal system has been wrong on this issue, they seldom catch any real dealers and end up punishing the victims, ruining their lives, and witch does no one any good….. Who has the 82 pounds?
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The 82 pounds? I don’t have it. Call the Justice Center.
How do you go about overturning this particular verdict, Deano? Again, call the Justice Center if you think you’ve got something to offer. I doubt my decision to not question the wisdom and authority of the prosecutors and judge in this case — and they had ALL the facts and evidence — will destroy the world! Good grief. Such overstatement. Such cynicism. I am a major advocate for change and one thing I’m willing to do is change my mind, when warranted. Some people aren’t.
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It looks like the slap on the wrist sentencing continues in Worthington. 82 pounds is a lot of marijuana. As far as marijuana being harmless that’s absolutely false. Most of the marijuana now being grown has considerably more THC than marijuana from even ten years ago. Heavy users of marijuana can get many bad effects from the drug. I just watched a program on this subject on the Documentary channel. As long as they keep handing down light sentences for repeat offenders as in this case there will be no deterrent for these criminals to continue dealing in drugs.
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Yep. 82 pounds is a lot, but even if he smoked it all by himself, he wouldn’t die from it. No one has ever died from smoking pot. There is not one documented case of someone dying by O.D. of pot. People die all the time from prescriptions and OTC medications. The side effects of some prescriptions are a lot more serious. The effects of alcohol are more serious. The effects of cigarettes are more serious. Pot is going to be around no if it’s legalized or not. If pot were legalized, the world would not end and would free up the legal system for more serious crimes. Pot has been decriminalized in Minnesota for a long time now. I don’t think it will be much longer before we pass a medical marijuana law in MN.
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This is a free country, supposedly. Americans should be allowed to choose for themselves as long as they are not harming others.
If I choose to smoke it, that should be my choice to make. If you don’t want to smoke it, fine. I’m not hurting you. I wouldn’t dream of trying to force my beliefs onto someone else. That’s just ridiculous to expect everyone to abide by my beliefs.
That documentary sounds like Reefer Madness conspiracy theories. Even if some users have adverse effects, that is their choice. Most users have pleasant, calming experiences.
If you choose to believe that marijuana is evil, that’s your choice. Some people find that it enhances their spirituality.
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Going by that logic it should be okay to use meth, heroin, or cocaine as well as long as they “don’t harm others”. You go right ahead and believe as you wish naughtydog. We don’t allow young people to legally guy and consume alcohol either. Heavy marijuana use can be quite damaging especially to developing young people. I’ve known more than one teenager who started with marijuana and graduated to meth. In at least one case I have heard of marijuana being laced with another drug that was much stronger. The thing is you have no idea what you are buying when you buy illegal drugs. Right now marijuana is not legal. The laws were broken and the sentence in this case was an absolute joke. If you believe the laws are wrong it’s your right to work to change them. Until they are we are all obligated to follow the laws.
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that should be “buy” alcohol. G is right above B. won’t win any awards for typing, lol.
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What consenting adults do on their own property is not my business or the governments.
As long as they are not minors or hurting others then it’s my mantra to live and let live.
This guy who was caught had nothing more then pot, and he wasn’t a minor.
Pot is not exactly illegal in MN. It’s been decriminalized. It’s only significant because of the amount that was shipped. Obviously the courts don’t think it’s a big deal either because of the sentence handed down.
They also know the writing is on the wall. Reefer Madness conspiracy theories aren’t scaring smart people anymore.
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This has nothing to do with “Reefer Madness”. If you don’t understand there are victims of the demand for marijuana supplied by the Mexican drug cartels you are clueless. If it’s not exactly illegal why are people arrested and punished for it? And by the way minors are very much consumers of marijuana. Making it easy to get will only increase the use of marijuana by minors. Marijuana may not be a “gateway” drug for everyone but I’ve seen enough kids for whom it was that I can see nothing good in it. I was very fortunate that my son never got into drugs. He doesn’t even smoke tobacco. Unfortunately some of his (former)friends started with marijuana and graduated to meth while they were still teenagers. Drugs like meth don’t just affect the user and you’re kidding yourself if you think it does. In the case of marijuana besides the pot supplied by the drug cartels public land, national forests, and even some national parks are being polluted and trashed by growers clandestinely growing pot on OUR public lands. So if you choose to keep living in fantasyland and ignoring reality naughtydog go right ahead. I choose to live in the real world.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJL69SoRZdU&feature=related
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Mission, Texas is almost on the Mexican border. One guess as to who the suppliers of the marijuana in this case is. And we all know the drug cartels are run by nice peaceful people, right? Gee that’s funny so many corpses keep showing up along the border. Anyone who thinks that at the very least the suppliers of this marijuana coming across the Mexican border aren’t violent and dangerous criminals is a fool. Those supplying the marijuana are usually also suppliers of nearly any kind of drug you can imagine. Of course it ultimately comes down to the demand and unfortunately there is a high demand for drugs of all kinds and they are very destructive of our society.
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No proof of that here is there?
http://www.co.nobles.mn.us/Departments/SheriffsOffice/NoblesCountyJail/InmateListings.aspx
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Don’t hold your breathe waiting for Obama to mention anything about holding the irresponsible parents who broke the law accountable. He also forgot to mention the billions of tax dollars that illegal aliens cost the ‘legal’ American taxpayers to subsidize them. Why are the legal American citizens the enemy here?
He then went on to make another false statement by saying, “they grew up as Americans and pledged allegiance to our flag.” Is he serious? It’s obvious that Obama has never attended a student protest in Los Angeles or Arizona where the students don’t “pledge allegiance” to our flag, they burn the American flag while draping their Mexican ones over their shoulders as capes playing “Super Alien” while demanding not only citizenship, but entitlements!
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Tens of thousands of convicted felons, including murderers and sex offenders, regularly are breaching the United States national boundary along just one section of the shared line with Mexico, according to a revealing new documentary called “Southern Exposure: Battle for the Border.”
Eyefull Video Productions, located in the migration hotbed of Tucson, Ariz., has produced a made-for-TV special about the U.S./Mexico border crisis. It suggests that the invading hordes also may have an agenda of damage to the U.S. far beyond ordinary crime such as robbery, looting and even homicide.
In anticipation of its Sept. 15 release date, when it is scheduled to be available on DVD on Amazon, producer Stan Wald and director Jerry Misner talked about their documentary with WND.
“We used to be in broadcasting, and we were getting towards retirement age and saying, ‘What do we really want to do?’ That’s one of the joys of actually retiring,” said Misner, a former U.S. Marine and Vietnam vet. “We started about four years ago doing television commercials and corporate-imaging video, and we started thinking we’d really like to do something meaningful and give something back to the country because it’s been good to us overall,” he explained.
“We discovered there were elements of the mass migration that were not being covered in major news across the country, but only in local communities adjacent to the border,” said Wald. “So we decided to start digging into things and getting some answers that the media wasn’t providing.”
Wald said that in fiscal year 2008-2009, there were 378,000 apprehensions by the Border Patrol in the Tucson sector alone, which is only 262 linear miles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oPP2NdxCVQ&feature=player_embedded
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Three Mexican men who were wanted for the murder of an American teenager have turned themselves in at an Arizona border crossing point, Reuters reports.
U.S. officers tell Reuters that Orel Vasquez, 20, Christian Vasquez, 26, and Juan Leon, 29, turned themselves in Saturday for the 2009 murder of 15-year-old Brenda Arenas of Tucson.
Arenas was shot in the head during a botched carjacking and died in her mother’s arms.
The U.S. Customs and Borders Protection agency took the three into custody.
All three men were in the U.S. illegally.
BRILLIANT!
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Now thats funny and a dislike right?
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Eastender is confused. http://www.ontheissues.org/2004/george_w__bush_immigration.htm
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