Pubdate: Tue, 31 Dec 2002
Source: New York Times (NY)
Section: National Briefing, New England
Copyright: 2002 The New York Times Company
Contact:  http://www.nytimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/298

VERMONT: THE SCENT OF BAIL MONEY

The police confiscated $50,000 in bail money from a Wallingford couple who 
were trying to free their daughter from jail on a marijuana possession 
charge, saying that the cash smelled like marijuana and probably came from 
sales of the substance. The couple, Arlene and Martin Edward Santor, who 
brought the money on Sunday to the Hampshire County Jail in Northampton, 
Mass., in $20 bills, said they got it from friends of their daughter, 
Nikita Santor, who was arrested after marijuana and $12,000 were found in a 
car she was driving. An affidavit said an officer detected a "slight odor 
of marijuana" on the bail money and a police dog confirmed it. (AP)
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