Murfreesboro Police pulled over a man on South Academy Street for a seatbelt violation earlier this week and ended up making a felony possession of marijuana arrest (schedule 6 drug charge). Terry Lewis Randolph was the passenger in the vehicle that was pulled over. Officers say when they asked to search Randolph, he consented.
The arresting officer noted, “a consensual search revealed a bulge in Mr. Randolph’s front genital area.” That bulge was evidently nothing natural, it was found to be 18-individually wrapped bags of marijuana. The police report shows that 24-grams of marijuana was recovered. The report also shows that marijuana sells for $20 to $25 per gram.
The 32-year old suspect was charged with felony possession of a schedule 6 drug with the intent to sale. He will appear in court this May.
Source:
MPD Arrest Report #13-3354
Tennessee Code Annotated
TCA 39-17-415. Criteria and controlled substances for Schedule VI.
(a) There is established a Schedule VI for the classification of substances which the commissioner of mental health and substance abuse services, upon the agreement of the commissioner of health, upon considering the factors set forth in § 39-17-403, decides should not be included in Schedules I through V. The controlled substances included in Schedule VI are:
(1) Marijuana;
(2) Tetrahydrocannabinols; and
(3) Synthetic equivalents of the substances contained in the plant, or in the resinous extractives of Cannabis, sp. and/or synthetic substances, derivatives, and their isomers with similar chemical structure and pharmacological activity, such as the following:
(A) 1 cis or trans tetrahydrocannabinol, and its optical isomers;
(B) 6 cis or trans tetrahydrocannabinol, and its optical isomers; or
(C) 3, 4 cis or trans tetrahydrocannabinol, and its optical isomers.
(b) Since nomenclature of these substances is not internationally standardized, compounds of these structures, regardless of numerical designation of atomic positions are covered.
HISTORY: Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1; 2010, ch. 1100, § 65; 2012, ch. 575, § 2.
