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Prime example of how facebook can interfere with your professional career. This guy has a public profile with one of his pics as graph with how he wants to get high majority of the time. How can you be that stupid when you're pushing that much weight?!!

How exactly do you know his facebook had something to do with this arrest?

Happy 4/20! Hope you smoked it while you had it!

And the point to these arrests are what exactly? This is good news for their competition or anyone else looking to push in Blacksburg, two more competitors out of commission for a little bit and higher costs attributed from lack of supply. All this arrest does is put a black mark on these two individuals record. Prohibition doesn't work.

six pounds? how insignificant in the bigger picture.

I doubt his facebook did have anything to do with it, but wouldn't you have the brains to set it to private? It was sort of a joke; hence his current "profession"

Dude, where's my weed?

Ok, I see a few bags of pot and some loose cash in the picture... Where are the narcotics? Is that what's in the prescription bottle? Must be serious to overshadow the weed.

Worst 420 ever! If only Tech had a drillfied tradition like CU.

a harmless drug enforced by an ignorant system.

facebook? really? you can browse plenty of pictures of people on facebook that are obviously smoking weed. it might have been a contributing factor as the investigation was developing but certainly not a direct cause.

I have bought off that guy before. He had good stuff.

Free Jess! I refuse to put my taxdollars toward her incarceration. I hold our politicians personally responsible for not regulating and controlling the drug trade. Americans demand drugs. A those who provide access to them because our politicians refuse to is not only anti-democratic, it is anti-American. If our politicians wish to wage war on youth, minorities, and the poor, then they are ageist, racist, and fascist and should be held accountable!

Many people support legalization of marijuana, but do it without the reckless words and emotional plea that you do, Kris. You should try listening to yourself, you've made a fool of yourself quite a few times here already. And proofread, for the love of god!

two more people who don't deserve what's coming to them. love this world we live in.

Sounds like they needed a better inventory management system. Why would they ever have 6 lbs at one time?

@hokienomics Obviously not business students. Pamplin is a big preacher of just-in-time.

as a rough rule of thumb with anything in any market, the more you buy the cheaper it is per unit to you. yaya?

Seriously,would want these two jackasses living next door to you w/ constant buyers coming and going all night long? Put the pieces of crap in jail where they belong, no questions asked.

This is just small time stuff, my uncle is a Narc in Boston and I told him about this and he just laughed. 6 pounds of weed is not going to stop it, its just gonna drive up the prices for poor college kids

I really feel a lot safer now that those two college students are off the streets...Since these dangerous criminals are off the street, maybe the Blacksburg PD might have some time to find whose been doing all of these armed robberies.

It's a shame the world is full of Narcs who don't know how to mind their own business. It's just WEED for God's sake!

@dudelydad- shut up, narc. these students' lives shouldnt be ruined over some pot. this drug war/prohibition is a failure, and everyones money is being spent on keeping nonviolent kids in prison.

I agree, weed should be legal. Only problem is it currently IS NOT. This individuals knowingly broke the law. They would have made thousands (tax free) and who knows if this was local-regional-wherever the fuk grown weed. They knew the risk of "getting a deal" on a large quantity. Know they'll have about 6-12 months (if they're lucky) to think about it.

Correction on grammar: Only problem is that currently it is not. Now they'll have 6-12 months

I agree that weed should be legal, though I don't smoke, but you have to admit that these people are idiots for trafficing an illegal substance, which they knew had severe legal penalties. Sooner or later your luck is going to run out.

If weed isn't legalized anytime soon, it should at least be decriminalized. I don't see how any police officer or legislator could believe that it makes sense to get students kicked out of school, lose their financial aid, and therefore delay the time it takes for them to get a degree and an actual job for selling or possessing a plant (one that has been proven to be safer than alcohol, a much bigger issue on college campuses). I could understand why they may be concerned about other drugs such as actual narcotics, but incarceration still isn't an effective solution. They should spend their time and money being used for these drug busts on ways to educate people about the dangers/consequences of the abuse/addiction of these harder drugs, along with finding effective treatments for addicts. Might take a few generations until that actually happens here though. :\

....everybody wants to talk about the pot...but...Those narcotics aren't mentioned cuz they prolly carry a heavier charge and more penalty than the pot and somebody hasnt stopped helping the po lice

....everybody wants to talk about the pot...but...Those narcotics aren't mentioned cuz they prolly carry a heavier charge and more penalty than the pot and somebody hasnt stopped helping the po lice

He also had oxy contin apparently

Even if they did have oxycontin, or any other actual narcotics, it doesn't make much sense to get them kicked out of school. You could be kicked out of VT or any zero tolerance school for smoking a joint, or having a kilo of heroin. In their eyes, it's all the same. They may have possessed/sold harder drugs but criminal punishments, such as incarceration, are not working. As I said before, there could be more efficient and effective methods of "punishing" these students, along with finding other ways of preventing the abuse of these harder drugs.

You guys do realize that the term narcotics refers to all illegal controlled substances, right? That includes marijuana.

Also, people addicted to these drugs may be more likely to go get help and treatment if they knew they weren't going to immediately be considered a criminal and sent to jail. Anyway, I'm done with my rant.

I understand that; I just personally do not consider marijuana a narcotic. That's why I kept saying "actual narcotics." Sorry!

I got mad after finding out about this bust, so I went through government documents of Senate hearings from the 80s. Turns out that Reagan was more of a puppet figure in the drive toward waging War on Drugs. Two months before his first speech that declared a "War on Drugs," it was agreed upon at a meeting of the Southern Governors' Association in Hilton Head, South Carolina. In the Senate committee discussions, there was a lot of resentment from the failures of Vietnam coming from those Senators and Congressman who demanded War on Drugs, and the War on Drugs was more than once compared to Vietnam. Virginia Tech's President McComas, who enacted our Zero Tolerance policy, came to us from the Mississippi State University. Virginia Tech students, going to a university in the South, have a duty to speak up against the intolerance that persists due to the resentment and convictions of our Southern politicians and administrators. We know these drug busts won't curb demand, just as the drug busts last year, and the year before and the year before that didn't curb demand. All the police effectively did was create a job opening for the next low-level dealers: high risk, high pay. It's time our politicians accept responsibility for their constituents drug demands. It's time we protest!

FederalHokie, marijuana is not a narcotic. It is a Schedule I controlled substance, but is specifically called out by the DEA as non-narcotic. Narcotic is not synonymous with illegal. http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/schedules/listby_sched/sched1.htm

Gotta keep on hustling, hu-hu-hu hustling, hustl-hustl-hustling...

When the punishment by law harms the individual more than the substance itself, something is very wrong with the system. I am the person who tagged Mr. Rivas on facebook, which is contained in a photo album of random pictures. It was done as a joke - the reference is to a song and, as a fellow engineer, to parody the lyrics by graphical representation. He didn't make the picture, nor did I. He also did not post that picture himself. You would have seen that if you had more time than to google search people's facebook pages and misrepresent it's contents. Sheeesh

concerned at 3:02, OK, sheesh myself sorry for not understanding that. I'm sure you could just explain that to the judge or employers who look to hire you, oh wait.. the judge doesn't care and the potential employer won't interview you.

I thought hurricane season was over

It is a travesty that it is not legal. It causes less harm than alcohol, but breaks up far more lives due to our government's treatment of it. The reason mexico is in arms right now is over drugs, they are killing people, and bringing gang drug wars over the border in to the US. If we were to legalize marijuana, the drug traffic in mexico would cease, and peace could be had. We could tax it, and the government could make money.

those of you who can't make an effort better than a middle schooler could come up with for pro-pot standing, you dont help anything. why oh why do you do these things.

It took them six months investigating to arrest two non-violent pot dealers and seize six pounds of weed? No weapons? Not much cash hauled in either. That is taxpayer money well spent.

few middle schoolers and some high schoolers may be able to come up with the reasoned argument that prohibition of pot is ineffective, but generally it takes a college education to realize we need to legalize pot. Unfortunately, our politicians are not so wise and maybe you could use some schooling as well. The argument "drugs bad, ban drugs" may have worked in the 80s, but i'm going to have to ask you to evolve.

Blacksburg PD great job, Raul and Jess don't desever this.

The rule of thumb is that the larger the buyer, the greater the elasticity of demand, i.e. he has more to benefit from seeking multiple suppliers and demanding the lowest price. That doesn't necessarily mean it all has to be bought at once. Presumably they had an ongoing relationship. Plus there are other dynamics, for example a commodity product may be the same price no matter where you go or how big you are. If I wanted to buy a bushel of wheat I could get it for the same price as con-agra on the chicago mercantile exchange. And actually, better inventory management on their part could have led to better inventory management on the supplier's part and he may have been willing to offer them lower prices on that basis.

hokienomics comment remind me of office space where they look up money laundering in the dictionary. you don't hang out with many black people, do you?

I knew one in high school. Why?

*drops beat. you're white like hanes and kids named shane, air force ones and aeroplanes. you're so white you make clouds feel dirty, and i bet when you write essays they can be kind of wordy. it's cool though, i'm a white kid too. want to be friends?

yes, yes, what shame i should feel for being white! i should just hang myself huh

vv It couldn't hurt vv

raul was one of my best friends for a long while...hes one of the smartest, kindess, most level-headed, interesting, and gifted people i've ever met. it's no surprise so many ppl know him..and i don't know anyone who has met him and didn't like him. it's a shame this country is still so ignorant about something like pot. cigarettes and alcohol both kill more ppl in a day then marijuana does....ever? legalize it and tax it already, and stop trying to ruin lives of ppl that definitely don't deserve it.

Gee, what a shock. A bust at the McDonald Street apartments (property management company: TNT Flinchum). As usual, one of the New River Valley apartment managing companies doesn't want to pay for security on their property. It had been well known for a while that there were wild parties in the McDonald street apartments. I wouldnt want my kids to live in ANY of the current off campus complexes, the way they are currently neglected and run.