Guthrie, Oklahoma, June 25, 2019 1100HRS
While on routine day shift patrol, a police officer initiated a traffic stop on a Ford passenger car with expired license plate tags. They ran the license plate and it came back stolen. The routine car stop turned into a ‘felony car stop’ wherein additional safety precautions are taken. Back-up responds. If you’re reading this, you likely know the drill…
They identified the driver as Stephen Jennings and the passenger as Rachael Rivera. With the driver and passenger searched and handcuffed, they approached the car and determined that there was an exceptionally large timber rattlesnake in a storage box on the back seat.
Bodycam footage shows one officer spotting the serpent in a storage box on the back seat and exclaiming: “That sucker is huge,” KFor reported.
The officers returned to Jennings and asked him what else he had in the car. He admitted that he had a loaded handgun in the console and an open container of Kentucky Deluxe whiskey.
Returning to the car, and locating the handgun and contraband whiskey, they further searched and found a canister of powdered uranium, which they did not open.
Charges:
1. Jennings had a valid lifetime hunting and fishing license so possession of he rattlesnake was not illegal.
2. Possession of a handgun is not illegal in Oklahoma.
3. Possession of a stolen car and driving with an open container are illegal and Jennings and Rivera were appropriately charged,
4. Jennings was driving on a suspended license, and was charged with that and with operating a motor vehicle without insurance…
5. The uranium is the wild card.
Ask Hillary about the Uranium…..
+1
If it's just plain old un-enriched uranium…
Is having it even slightly illegal?
If so, why?
-Kle.
Agreed.
It's curious.
I think he was trying to use it to get super powers from the snake.
You can actually buy Uranium from Amazon. It does have legitimate uses.
One of them is for calibration of Geiger counters and other such devices. So unless he stole the Uranium from someplace possessing it was also likely perfectly legal.
It worked for Peter Parker, after all.
Well yes, most of the described activities are legal, but…
…somehow, I get the feeling that this dude lives a strangely interesting life.
"…so possession of he rattlesnake…" So the rattlesnake is male?
Paul
As usual LL, your blog is informative and entertaining.
Thanks for the post.
Paul L. Quandt
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