- It’s so nice when somebody does your job for you.
Being a cop can be a difficult job. It can also be an incredibly easy one if your customers, shall we say, are high enough.
Two drug traffickers traveling through Texas had a bit of a later Christmas present for the local police officers. They had the brilliant idea to call 911 and ask the cops to come and help them.
It turned out the due was so high that they imagined somebody was following. Once the cops showed up, they calmed the guys’ fears and sent them on their merry way.
Nah, they totally got arrested. Not only were they carrying more than 100 pounds of weed, but the two also started behaving erratically and threateningly.
But hey, at least they made it really easy for the cops to find them.
There’s Someone Tailing Us, Man!
According to the Hartley County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO), the bizarre arrest took place around midnight between December 29 and 30. At the time, the alleged drug traffickers were traveling through Hartley County in northern Texas, some 60 miles northeast of Amarillo.
The two had been partaking in some drugs themselves and were quite high at the time. So much so that they became convinced they were being followed.
Official reports don’t make it clear what they thought was following them. But they knew someone or something was after them and they became scared.
Perhaps the stuff they were on made them forget about their illicit cargo because they resorted to a process they probably learned already as kids. If you’re in trouble, call 911.
And that’s just what they did. However, they didn’t say on the phone that they were transporting drugs, just that someone was after them.
The 911 dispatcher told them to pull up at the Hitchin Post gas station in Hartley. Then, they sent a sheriff’s deputy to see what was the issue.
Quite a Haul
However, the traffickers never made it to Hitchin Post. Instead, they stopped their pickup truck smack-dab in the middle of Hwy 87.
When the deputy’s vehicle arrived, the two must’ve realized what a mistake they’d made. We’re guessing that because they began sprinting toward the deputy’s car in “an aggressive manner.”
Concerned for his safety, the deputy decided to act.
“They were ordered down on the ground at gunpoint and placed in handcuffs,” the HCSO reported.
Fortunately, the duo decided to comply and got down on the ground. As they were being detained, they informed the deputy that they were transporting marijuana.
And it wasn’t just a couple of baggies, either. Inside the vehicle, the deputy discovered three tote bags and one suitcase packed with weed.
In total, the pickup was loaded with 129 one-pound bags of skunk. In other words, 129 pounds of weed.
Based on the average 2022 price of illegal weed (starting at $3,000 per pound), the haul was worth roughly $387,000. That’s a spicy weed ball.
That said, it’s not like the traffickers had been smoking the stuff. Instead, the HCSO said that they were high on good ol’ fashioned methamphetamine.
Additionally, Sheriff Chanze Fowler said that neither of the men had slept for the past three nights. Combined with the drugs, their sleep deprivation launched a “paranoid episode” that led to them thinking they were being followed.
The duo said they were on their way from Kansas to Alabama, but HCSO believes they came from Colorado. They wouldn’t otherwise have had any reason to drive through Hartley.
Unless, of course, they were high out of their minds and got lost.
Officer, I’d Like to Report Some Drugs
Counterproductive as it seems, it’s not that uncommon for drug traffickers or users to call the cops on themselves. Take, for example, a case we reported on last year.
A Florida drug user called the cops because he suspected the meth he had bought was adulterated. Once the police arrived, he asked them to test the drugs’ purity because he was concerned other junkies might die from using the bad stuff.
At least his heart was in the right place. That didn’t keep him from getting arrested, though.
In 2016, Idaho cops dealt with a case quite similar to the one in Hartley. Two self-described “dumbasses” called 911 because — in their drug-addled state — they became convinced undercover cops were after them.
So why’d they call the uniformed cops? In their own words, they couldn’t take the pressure anymore and asked the police to “just end it.”
In the end, there never were any cops on their tail, undercover or otherwise. But at least they could go to jail worry-free.
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