{"id":1129,"date":"2007-11-07T17:59:53","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T21:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2007-11-07T18:04:24","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T22:04:24","slug":"south-texas-illegal-alien-busted-after-reporting-pot-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/07\/south-texas-illegal-alien-busted-after-reporting-pot-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"South Texas illegal alien busted after reporting pot theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>South Texas man busted after reporting pot theft<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>McALLEN, Texas \u2014 A man was arrested for drug possession after telling authorities that two masked gunmen had stolen 150 pounds of marijuana from his home.<\/p>\n<p>Hidalgo County sheriff&#8217;s deputies arrived at the home near Penitas in South Texas to find the door kicked in and nearly 15 pounds of pot lying on the floor, Sheriff Lupe Trevino said.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Guadalupe Flores, 35, escaped while the men ransacked the house but returned later and told the deputies he had been wrapping the drugs for shipment when the intruders arrived.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The guy walked right up and said the drugs were his,&#8221; Trevino said. &#8220;That&#8217;s not the smartest move.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Flores, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, was charged with felony possession of marijuana at an arraignment hearing Monday. Because of his immigration status, Flores will be jailed until his case is heard.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities were still searching for the gunmen. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/headline\/metro\/5277115.html?facepalm\">Here.<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And I am still laughing myself silly&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Texas man busted after reporting pot theft McALLEN, Texas \u2014 A man was arrested for drug possession after telling authorities that two masked gunmen had stolen 150 pounds of marijuana from his home. Hidalgo County sheriff&#8217;s deputies arrived at the home near Penitas in South Texas to find the door kicked in and nearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}