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3 Houston-area men arrested in north Texas for edibles during road trip, mom of 2 of the men says
Dandre and Dante Burroughs, and their roommate, Samuel Serrano-Griffiths, are at present within the Clay County Jail in Henrietta, Texas close to Wichita Falls, every being held on a $50,000 bond.
“I used to be shocked and really upset,” stated Raquel Burroughs, Dante and Dandre’s mother.
She says she obtained the decision in regards to the arrest early Monday morning. She says she understands what her sons are being accused of is against the law however believes the punishment doesn’t match.
“In a single place, it is authorized for marijuana. Texas is supposedly decriminalizing marijuana, however but, they’re going to put my children in jail and maintain them and provides them a felony file. It would not add up,” stated Raquel.
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She says her sons and Serrano-Griffiths are longtime associates and had been on the best way again from celebrating her sons’ birthdays in Colorado. She says they’re accused of getting edibles within the automobile once they had been pulled over.
The Clay County Sheriff’s Workplace wouldn’t verify the quantity of medication allegedly discovered within the automobile, however the drug expenses the three are going through is a felony ranging between 4 and 400 grams. None of them have a prison historical past in Harris County.
“They work. They’re onerous employees. They’re simply actually good children. Regardless that they’re my children, I’m not simply saying that, I’ve been instructed that many occasions, (of) how respectful they’re,” the mother stated.
In response to Clay County Sheriff Jeffrey Lyde, the deputy who made the arrest stated it began as a visitors cease for rushing and an unsafe lane change.
Katharine Harris, a drug coverage fellow on the Baker Institute at Rice College, says she believes lawmakers ought to rethink state drug legal guidelines and the way offenses like these are dealt with.
“I feel this case actually highlights type of the issues with the Texas regulation…I do not know what that is doing to guard public security. And if they’re convicted of those offenses, they’ll have felonies on their information, which is able to make it that a lot tougher for them to get jobs,” stated Harris.
In response to Sheriff Lyde, the three males had a video Justice of the Peace listening to the place possible trigger was discovered.
ABC13 requested the charging paperwork from the Clay County District Clerk’s workplace, however they haven’t but been filed.
Burroughs says she has employed a lawyer to attempt to get the bond lowered, so then she will undergo a bail bondsman and hopefully be capable to get her sons out of jail.
“No person has this type of cash so it is simply making a hardship. It is a loss for everyone however Clay County apparently,” stated Burroughs.
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