Teacher Nabbed In Pot Raid

Teacher Nabbed In Pot Raid

The woman and her husband, a county agency director, had marijuana in their home, police say.


A Gloucester County fourth grade teacher and her county employee husband were charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana after police raided their Saints Lane home.
Charged are Roberta Shifflett, 45, and her husband, Michael Shifflett, 57, the longtime director of Gloucester's Department of Housing.
Their son, Joseph Shifflett, 18, and a houseguest, Sarah Ouelette, 19, of Gloucester, are charged with possession of marijuana with the intent to sell it.
Another houseguest, Matthew Carter, 19, of Gloucester, is charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession.
Charges are pending against a 17-year-old Gloucester female who was also in the house at the time, Chief Shefiff's Deputy Mike Nicely said Tuesday.

Nicely said the raid was conducted Thursday with a searchwarrant by the Middle Peninsula Drug Task Force and county deputies.
The raiding party seized about a quarter-pound of marijuana, a set of digital scalesl, and $663 in cash, he said.

Roberta Shifflett has been a teacher in the county schools about 23 years.
She was teaching fourth grade at Bethel Elementary School.
Bethel Principal Brenda Martin praised Shifflett as an excellent who was "very caring and loved her students very much."
Martin said Shifflett was on indefinate leave.
Michael Shifflett has been suspended, County Administrator William H. Whitley said, "until the case is decided in court."
As the county's housing director for more than 23 years, Shifflett administered a federal rental assistance program for Gloucester and other Middle Peninsula counties.

The Shiffletts couldn't be reached for comment.

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Whyyyyyyyy in the helll. This is seriously fucked up. She was one of the happiest and nicest teachers I have ever had and I know their kids and went to school with them. One of my best friends even dated her daughter. I mean, come on, what's the half life of bad propaganda.

Fuck you, William Randolph Hearst, fuck you.

 

The one thing they don't talk about anywhere (at least in government circles) is why pot is illegal in the first place.

The main reason it is illegal is because back in the 30's William Randolph Hearst owned a lot of newspapers and owned the paper mills that printed the paper. Hemp (which of course is not exactly the same thing as marijuana but is commonly associated and lumped together with it) was competing with his paper production so he rallied his friends in power (government) and finally made it illegal in 1937. I don't think a lot of people know this.

The interesting part is that when the case was originally brought before congress the prosecutor (Anslinger) claimed that it caused violence, attacks, delerium, death and was only used by poor black people (jazz musicians I believe). When the topic came back up in the 50's the same guy (Anslinger) told congress a totally different story. Now his tale said that it should be illegal because it caused mellowness and apathy. He said the communists would try to use it against our youth in a bid to corrupt America.

 

This is getting way out of control.

A couple weeks ago, my mom was watching cops, it was in Hawaii... the episode was pretty much just a "how to" on how they use helicopters to find marijuana hidden in sugar cane fields.

All that money for gas for the helicopters, filming, etc etc... sorry about your teacher.

 

Do you know what they're saying now?

Since the communists are gone, it shouldn't be a problem anymore.

 

communist scum...

 

I know... I used to tutor classes with her and one of her other teachers a little while back before I took up homeschooling. Virginia is a commonwealth... = a big p.o.s. run by a bunch of rich stuck up conservatives who are scared of what a plant could do to government. It was racism... I mean, jesus, it's QUITE obvious. It's also because the mormons would go to mexico as missionaries and bring it back to the states, then Christians saying it was corrupting them and they also pulled out racism, and back then racism was common so everyone went along with it. It's the an outdated and irritating law... why do people have to be so weak-minded about it. You realize it's just illegal and you're told it's illegal, but nobody says WHY it's illegal.

 

Oh my name it is nothin'
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I's taught and brought up there
The laws to abide
And that land that I live in
Has God on its side.

Oh the history books tell it
They tell it so well
The cavalries charged
The Indians fell
The cavalries charged
The Indians died
Oh the country was young
With God on its side.

Oh the Spanish-American
War had its day
And the Civil War too
Was soon laid away
And the names of the heroes
I's made to memorize
With guns in their hands
And God on their side.

Oh the First World War, boys
It closed out its fate
The reason for fighting
I never got straight
But I learned to accept it
Accept it with pride
For you don't count the dead
When God's on your side.

When the Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And we were friends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now too
Have God on their side.

I've learned to hate Russians
All through my whole life
If another war starts
It's them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side.

But now we got weapons
Of the chemical dust
If fire them we're forced to
Then fire them we must
One push of the button
And a shot the world wide
And you never ask questions
When God's on your side.

In a many dark hour
I've been thinkin' about this
That Jesus Christ
Was betrayed by a kiss
But I can't think for you
You'll have to decide
Whether Judas Iscariot
Had God on his side.

So now as I'm leavin'
I'm weary as Hell
The confusion I'm feelin'
Ain't no tongue can tell
The words fill my head
And fall to the floor
If God's on our side
He'll stop the next war.

 

I saw that episode of cops... and Orsino2 where in VA is this? I know VA well but don't recall that county. I live in VA by the way.

 

hahaha, here's something i wrote a couple days ago..

Everyone minds if I start to smoke
So then I ask, "How 'bout a toke?"
They say, "no, we don't want to choke,
how 'bout you go OD from coke?"
I don't see why you're all so mean
I just want to smoke in peace

I got fired from work 'cos I lit my cig
Just 'cos I tar up my lungs doesn't mean I'm a prick
Then a friend snitched me out to a pig
Since I had a bowl in my mouth, he broke my lip
I don't see why you're all so mean
I just want to smoke in peace

All these laws kick us outside
But when we see a pig we've got to run and hide
They tell our kids "don't be shy,
If your parents roll cigs, they've got to die"
I don't see why you're all so mean
I just want to smoke in peace

Potheads are considered devils by society
For what I do in my home, don't you patronize me
They say they can lock us up 'cos they're better than we
Take them sticks out yer asses, its just a little weed
I don't see why you're all so mean
I just want to smoke in peace


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It's the middle peninsula on the coast... sticks out into the chesapeake bay. I live in downtown Gloucester about a block from the courthouse.

 

From a sheerly technical point of view, thats superb, but to describe it as a whole, its truely amazing! It just says so much, yet so very little. I just want to smoke in peace!

 

groovy

 

trippin

 

haha, I dont even smoke

Imagine what i could with some lsd. :H

 

Wow, you like totaly understand a smokers perspective though

you go!

 

I smoke, but I haven't in almost a month. Dammit... I wish I could have gotten that quarter pound. I bet the deputies are smokin their dank buds.

 

I didn't say that I've never smoked before.

 

I wouldn't mind having some...

 

I'm sorry I must have misunderstood? Why is her house being raided?

 

It didn't say. They just said she had this stuff called "mary-jew-wanna"

[english accent]

Excuse me, my Good sir, I would like to inquire if you might happen to know where one may be able to purchase some of this newfangled "mary-jew-wanna"? I have heard smoking it in a so called "bong" makes one feel joyous and makes one commit acts such as tomfoolery and skylarking.

if you know where as i could find some of this rather audible plant, would you be so bold as to tell me, as so i could excange the proprioter some legal tender for his goods.

thank you kind sir


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