Texas Rangers catcher Geovany Soto was arrested Wednesday night in Grapevine on a marijuana possession charge.
Soto, 31, was pulled over for speeding around 10 p.m. in the 3500 block of Ira E. Woods Avenue, said Grapevine police spokesman Sgt. Robert Eberling.
He has been charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana under 2 ounces. Eberling said Soto was cooperative during the arrest.
Soto is free on a $500 bail. The Tarrant County district attorney’s office filed his charges Friday. Soto has not selected a defense attorney.
Texas Rangers officials declined to comment on the arrest.
“We are aware of the situation,” team spokesman John Blake said.
Soto has been recovering from knee surgery and remains on the team’s disabled list.
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1. Davo's Favorite Tacos Are Moose Tacos Posted: July 11, 2014 at 03:07 PM (#4748928)Here's something from NYC:
However, if it were fully legal and easy to buy? I'm wondering what my smoking pattern would be. Every once in a while, why not?
My mother was in college around 1970 - one would think prime drug experimentation time. She, however, belong to a sorority which had such arcane rituals as a weekly gathering in which each sister stood in a circle and one-by-one performed some kind of silent ceremony to indicate if her boyfriend had given her his frat pledge pin or college ring to indicate that they were officially going steady. So, no, she wasn't smoking pot. She said that the 60s didn't reach Missouri until the late 70s.
That may be the goofiest thing I've ever heard in my ... well, no. strike that. Definitely the goofiest thing I've heard in quite a few weeks, though.
I dunno. Sounds like the whole sorority was on something a helluva lot stronger than cannabis. LSD, maybe.
(Of course, such absurdity might be SOP for sororities &/or fraternities, for all I know. Such things have always struck non-joiner-type me as incomprehensible, anyway.)
Louis Armstrong smoked throughout his life. And Reefer Madness was made in 1936. It ain't like the hippies invented the stuff.
There are swaths of Missouri that the 60s never left.
The 1860s.
FTW
Big part of the L.A. scene mentioned in Raymond Chandler novels--also from that period. Think I remember Perry Mason fighting the dread pot scourge as well.
Nowadays, I'm a little baffled when I hear of African-American pot users (i.e., Ron Washington, Singleton, etc.).
This is great. It also doesn't surprise me. She's cousins of the Marx Brothers and I'm sure that I had read before that she had major social anxiety issues (which is why she was "ill" for the TV version of the show a lot) that smoking helped with.
I always thought Texas had some kind of libertarian streak though.
I guess I could see this for meth but for pot? Really? Miles Davis? Jimi Hendrix? Bob Marley? Snoop? Wiz Khalifa? Kareem Abdul Jabbar? Barack Obama? Friday?
One of the many cool parallels between Bill Walton and Kareem Abdul Jabbar is that they are both notorious stoners.
You're right about her huge problems with stage fright, but she apparently wasn't actually related to the Marx Brothers.
Somehow it's shocking to me that there are places in the US where you could get arrested for possession of pot, but I guess that's true of the vast majority of the country?
I always thought Texas had some kind of libertarian streak though.
- you must be kidding
it is the easiest way to get males with dark skin behind bars. here, you can get arrested for being in the CAR with someone who has pot, even if you just hitched a ride, your pee test is clean and you have none on you. once you get arrested, you're In The System, which will make it harder for you to get work, and get a job and that is how things are
Only in the sense that "libertarian" is too often a 5-syllable synonym for "fascist."
What the hell is the charge in this case?
Good question. I'm tempted to say that they must be spraying Agent Orange or something similar out there, because as much as it's rained this summer I can't imagine dead grass being a problem. Hell, there are times my grass visibly could use a good mowing only 2 days after I've done so. Since you've lived here before, it'll be no revelation to you that except in cases of capital-D Drought, the place is basically a hothouse.
Otherwise, I can't remember the last time I took in a game there. I'm thinking the final home game of ... 2012? Shame on me.
I believe it's called "constructive possession," IOW the dope is there and you could'a got at it.
I've heard exactly what BBC has, though IANAL either and the fear may be exaggerated if you're white & middle class. It's certainly a convenient way to criminalize minorities, as she notes.
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