{"id":706,"date":"2008-07-09T13:49:34","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T20:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/07\/crack-makes-you-dumb\/"},"modified":"2008-07-09T13:51:24","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T20:51:24","slug":"crack-makes-you-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/09\/crack-makes-you-dumb\/","title":{"rendered":"Crack Makes You Dumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/us_world\/2008\/07\/09\/2008-07-09_man_robbed_buying_crack_calls_cop_who_ar.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The New York Daily News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; font-size: 150%; margin: 0px\">Man robbed buying crack calls cop who arrests him<\/h1>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 90%; margin: 0px\" class=\"byline\">THE ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; color: #8f8c8c; font-size: 90%; margin: 0px\" class=\"datestamp\">Wednesday, July 9th 2008, 9:50 AM<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/imagecache2.allposters.com\/images\/pic\/HPM\/BM1172~Say-No-To-Crack-Posters.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"285\" width=\"230\" border=\"0\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/Hartford+(Connecticut)\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #015fb6; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" title=\"Hartford (Connecticut)\">HARTFORD, Conn.<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; An\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/East+Hartford\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #015fb6; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" title=\"East Hartford\">East Hartford<\/a>\u00a0man called police to report he had been robbed while trying to buy crack cocaine.<br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/>Max Minnefield called police Monday to tell them he had paid a man and a woman $8 for drugs he never received.<br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/>Police charged him with criminal attempt to commit possession of narcotics.<br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/>During his arraignment Tuesday,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/Bradford+Ward\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #015fb6; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" title=\"Bradford Ward\">Judge Bradford Ward<\/a>\u00a0asked Minnefield, &#8220;Did you really think the police were going to go after the people?&#8221; He added that his question was rhetorical.<br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/>Prosecutors later dropped the charges.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Weslund, Minnefield&#8217;s public defender, said no drugs were ever found.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/us_world\/2008\/07\/09\/2008-07-09_man_robbed_buying_crack_calls_cop_who_ar.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to read at NYDailyNews.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Daily News Man robbed buying crack calls cop who arrests him THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wednesday, July 9th 2008, 9:50 AM HARTFORD, Conn.\u00a0&#8211; An\u00a0East Hartford\u00a0man called police to report he had been robbed while trying to buy crack cocaine.Max Minnefield called police Monday to tell them he had paid a man and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}