To Be Blunt, Blowing Smoke in Front of Cycle Cop Isn't Savvy

This one goes under the category of things you ought to know better than to do.

At 9:35 p.m. May 2, a 25-year-old Brookfield man was arrested for possession of marijuana after a motorcycle patrol officer stopped him in the 10900 block of Watertown Plank Road.

The officer had pulled up behind the man’s car at a stop light and could smell a strong odor of burning marijuana. The officer noted in his report that the car in front of him had its windows down and sunroof open, and that there was no other vehicle anywhere near that could have produded the smell.

The driver had entered a left-turn only lane but then continued through the intersection when the light turned green.

The officer continued to smell marijuana as he followed the car. He activated his lights and pulled the driver over.

After he was pulled over, the driver claimed he had not been smoking pot; the odor was from when a friend who had been riding with him earlier had been smoking.

The officer found a “shorted blunt,” or partially smoked marijuana cigarette, in the car. The man then said he had quit smoking marijuana six months before but in a “moment of weakness” had taken a few puffs of the blunt, which he said had been left in his car by a friend.

The rest of the conversation was short and blunt. The driver was arrested and taken to the joint.