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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