WASHINGTON CITY— Utah Highway Patrol arrested a 24-year-old man Friday afternoon after a search of his vehicle unveiled more than an ounce of marijuana and manufacturing tools for extractions of marijuana.
Just after noon, a vehicle driven by a man, later identified as Karl Wesley Young, of Aurora, Colorado, was headed southbound on Interstate 15. UHP Trooper Grant Hintze executed a traffic stop on the vehicle near Exit 13 for tinted taillights. Tinted taillights make it hard to see when a vehicle brakes, Hintze said.
“When I walked up, the driver (Young) rolled down the passenger side window and I could smell marijuana,” Hintze said. “I asked him to exit the vehicle.”
During the search of the vehicle, paraphernalia for the personal use of marijuana was found in the glove box. In the trunk, over an ounce of marijuana was found in a backpack, along with manufacturing cooking tools used to extract chemicals from marijuana.
“There were cooking pots, a pressure chamber, hoses and butane,” Hintze said, “basically like a lab setup.”
Extractions of marijuana in the form of a waxy substance were also found. The extractions create a more potent form of marijuana, Hintze said.
Young was arrested and transported to the UHP office for questioning by state investigators due to the amount of marijuana and lab equipment found in his car. Young stated he was going to California, Hintze said.
Young was booked into the Washington County Purgatory Correctional Facility. Upon being booked, additional marijuana was found on Young’s person.
Young was charged with a third-degree felony for possession of contraband inside the jail for the marijuana found on his person, a class-A misdemeanor for possession of marijuana, a second-degree felony for drug manufacturing, two class-B misdemeanors for possession of drug paraphernalia and a class-C misdemeanor for unsafe vehicle. According to bookings information, Young’s current bail stands at $16,970.
Persons arrested or charged are presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law or as otherwise decided by a trier-of-fact.
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In Colorado I bet all that stuff would be legal. Hard way to learn a lesson…
In Utah,it merits harsher penalties than violent crimes
Yes it does Koolaid… Pretty sad actually. Don’t know about the BHO, but still… No one dies from MJ.
Colorado does not allow homemaking BHO (butane hash oil).
Yes it does! Only the city of Denver banned bho processing !
Get better info before you spread lies!
And if he had only been drunk and wrecked a sheriff’s vehicle with loaded weapons and children on board, he’d have gotten off lightly… maybe, depending on the bishop connection and tithing thing.
“extractions create a more potent” Just a concentrate, less is consumed. “stop for tinted taillights” Colorado license plate?
They get that wrong all the time. It’s like saying isolated whey protein is a more potent form of protein. Same potency on a gram to gram basis, just more concentrated. A gram is a gram.
Guess which finger I’m holding up right now Utah?
Probably the finger that shows the IQ results of you last test
The one up your …
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This is a stunning example of profiling and enforcement of unjust laws.
The U.S. government classifies marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug, defined as having “no medicinal value and highly addictive.” Other Schedule 1 Drugs are Heroine, Meth, and Ecstasy. Yet, they own the medical marijuana patent for curing serious brain trauma like Cancer, Epilepsy and Leukemia using Cannabis.
Yes you are reading this correctly: The U.S. government, which includes the DEA, owns patent #6630507 for medical marijuana.
How many lives have been ruined by the “War on Drugs”?
How many people have died because the medicine that works was outlawed to appease the Big Pharma, Alcohol, and Corrections lobbies?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/US-patent-6630507.pdf
AMEN!
The truth will set us free
These draconian laws need changing
Won’t happen as long as you have senators like Hatch who are bought by pharmaceutical companies. Pharmaceutical meds are big $$$!
This is horrible. Everyone is looking at your backward … state in shame! Horrible i’l never visit there and I’ll tell my friends and family to do the same. …
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Thank you Adam for not coming… Also thank you for telling your family, whom I’m sure shares your views, to not come! WE DON’T WANT THEM!!!
nothing is in Utah besides some whack snowing and some corny basketball team.
Just another “producer” (unlicensed chemist) on his way to Cali for meet his “distributor” (unlicensed pharmacist). Normal everyday business as usual…..nothing wrong with a little capitalism.
It requires a pound of dried Indica Bud just to make a few ounces of Rick Simpsons cancer cure.
Go to Utah? On PURPOSE? There are certain states intelligent people know were meant to be FLOWN over only.
Yes Fatrat, we Utahns thank you for ONLY flying over our state…. Let’s keep it that way!
Or unless you want 5 wives and a bunch of mormons lmao