Pubdate: Wed, 22 Mar 2006
Source: Janesville Gazette (WI)
Copyright: 2006 Bliss Communications, Inc
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JANESVILLE MAN ARRESTED AFTER HE OFFERED POLICE MARIJUANA

It must have been really good dope.

As two Janesville police officers drove in the 100 block of Madison
Street on Monday afternoon, they noticed a man with whom they were
well acquainted teasing some dogs in a fenced yard.

One of the officers, Sgt. Steve DeWitt, called the 66-year-old man by
name, and he responded to the hail and walked to the squad car's
passenger side.

DeWitt warned him not to stick his fingers through the fence because
he was teasing the dogs and could be bitten. At the same time, a woman
stepped out of the house and asked the officers to stop the man from
teasing the dogs.

The cops were in civilian clothes and riding in one of Janesville's
unmarked but obvious police cars: white Chevrolet Impala with
spotlight, aerials, interior emergency lights, prisoner cage, dash
computer-the full police works except for exterior light bar and
exterior insignia.

After talking about the dogs, the man said: 'You guys want to smoke
some dope," DeWitt reported.

DeWitt said sure but that he didn't have any grass with him. DeWitt
asked the man if he had any. The man searched his pockets and came up
with a cellophane package "containing a green leafy material that
appeared to be marijuana," DeWitt wrote in the distinctive language of
a police report.

After the material was tested, "a positive reaction for the presence
of THC (marijuana's active ingredient) was detected, all against the
dignity and laws of the state of Wisconsin," DeWitt reported.

The 66-year-old Janesville man was arrested on a charge of marijuana
possession. 
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