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Danville Police Department
Anthony Wimbush
A Danville judge sent a drug case against the former co-owner of a nightclub for teenagers to a grand jury Friday after hearing testimony from police who said they found nearly 90pounds of marijuana inside the defendant’s house on Lee Street.
Anthony Wimbush, of Danville, was charged with possession with intent to distribute more than five pounds of marijuana. Wimbush co-owned Teen Zone, which featured music, dancing, video games and Internet access for the city’s teenagers.
Wilson Pasley, an assistant commonwealth’s attorney for Danville, prosecuted the preliminary hearing.
He quizzed Detective E.D. Whitehead of the Danville Police Department about an April 29 search of 863 Lee St.
Whitehead said that police found marijuana, digital scales and a police scanner in the bedroom where Wimbush told investigators he stayed. The marijuana was loose in a black plastic trash bags between a dresser and the wall, he added.
Inside the house, they also found packaged bricks of marijuana and black totes that were padlocked, Whitehead said. One of the totes had two rectangular bricks of marijuana, a half brick of marijuana and a butcher knife.
A safe found in the closet had seven stacks of cash that were wrapped in rubber bands. Six of the stacks had $1,000, and the last stack had $1,010, Whitehead said. Another officer, who searched Wimbush, found $2,200 in the pocket of his pants, according to testimony Friday.
Investigators found a security camera on the front porch of the house that wirelessly sent a video feed to an upstairs bedroom.
Whitehead testified that the amounts of marijuana and cash, the digital scale, the security camera and butcher knife are consistent with the distribution of marijuana.
Wimbush’s defense attorney, Andrea Long, filed a motion to suppress evidence, which will be taken up in later proceedings. She asked the officers who testified about the amount of time it took for police to knock on the door of the Lee Street home then break in.
She also asked about the layout of the house, the location where police found the two people inside the house and the cooperativeness of her client. Police said he was cooperative and polite.
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RD. You on drugs? You are accusing me of saying something I didn’t say; in fact, I haven’t even posted anything on this blog. You been getting some stuff from some local dealer? Get into rehab, my friend, or quit smoking the cheap stuff.
‘Nuff said. Peace.
First time pot users and sellers dont go to prison unless they have enough to supply Danville.
JP, he flew it, not sent it. You on drugs again, fabricating stories? Lay off the dope man. It is not working for you JP.
Yea sure I’ll play. I agree with RLH. Smoking pot would defnitely increase fast food sales and lord knows we got plenty of those restaurants to support. It will also increase soft drink sales because when you get high in the evening a lot of times you wake up with cotton mouth and the only relieve is an ice cold can of Mt Dew…uh, well, that’s what I’ve been told anyway.
Why, no one is listening.
I’m tried of this newspaper closing this comments on stories we care about!
No need to commen here!!!!!!!
This comment board will be shut down if godanriver thinks it needs to be! Let’s talk about dogs being chained up for 3 hours!!!
I agree with legalizing it.It would help the economy.The fast food industry would explode
Right on Randall. I feel the same way! Legalize it and no one will have to sell it anymore. Hey, slip it into the health care bill, no one reads it anyway.
Normally I am against marijuana law enforcement. After all, it is just a plant, not a processed drug. But since this involved children, it is a very bad matter. That is one thing I don’t approve of, anything involving children. Sell to adults all day, they should be left alone. But not to children. Back when I sold, I never would sell pot to anyone who sold to kids, and I checked to see who their customers were. That is the truth. The only reason it is illegal is because the gov’t can’t tax it. Anyone can grow a plant in the backyard, enough to use for themself. So they won’t buy from the gov’t shops that have been talked about setting up. Since they won’t pay the taxes, the gov’t is against it. Pot is no where near as dangerous, as far as impairment and long term health, than alcohol. There are several drugs that are worse. But there is also the prison industry. Incarceration is a huge economic industry. Private owned prisons, and the millions of Federal employees in the prisons all over the country. Putting first time pot users and sellers in Federal prison with murderers, rapists and violent criminals only turns peaceful people into criminals. They learn bad habits, and quickly. Bad exposure, no sense in it. Legalize pot, with the option to prosecute those who sell to minors, and hard punishment for them. Quit making criminals out of people that only use pot, not real illegal drugs. Imprisoning them, ripping their families apart, losing their jobs, that is a travesty. It should be legalized, intelligent people admit that. Expunge the criminal records of people who ONLY have a pot charge, and no violent or other drug related charges. Let people put their lives back together, so their families aren’t paying for the conviction of the breadwinner. This should only apply to pot, nothing else added in.
Well there is my two cents. I don’t expect everyone to agree with me, but in all seriousness, I have spoken the truth.
Being this involved drugs to teenagers, he deserves the max the law allows, plus 10.
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