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Edgy MD Mar 21 2021 04:49 PM

Cubs minor leaguer Jesús Camargo-Corrales charged with possession of 21 pounds of methamphetamine https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/Fb4y4IZhAV5qZyPTl5mVJw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTcyMDtjZj13ZWJw/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2021-03/23cc3ba0-89c2-11eb-bbcf-242c1fcc25ac> Way to use your trademarked, team-issued duffel as your smuggling bag, man. Those two green bags on top of the pile? That's the 1.2 pounds of suspected oxycodone he was hauling along (to somehow supplement the meth?). We never had a thread for the Johnny Damon arrest video, but I get the idea it's going to be a bad year for ballplayers behaving badly. It kind of feels dirty to share stories like this and it feels dirty not to.

Johnny Lunchbucket Mar 21 2021 05:52 PM Re: 21 pounds

Geez.

Edgy MD Mar 21 2021 07:34 PM Re: 21 pounds

I'm guessing that playing in Mexico in the winter season, and having a legit visa to come to the US in the spring, somebody made a mule of him. That won't necessarily explain why he was driving erratically, of course.

Willets Point Mar 21 2021 08:23 PM Re: 21 pounds

Good thing that #LOLCubs isn't a thing or it would be all over this story.

Frayed Knot Mar 22 2021 03:27 AM Re: 21 pounds

Edgy MD wrote: I'm guessing that playing in Mexico in the winter season, and having a legit visa to come to the US in the spring, somebody made a mule of him. That was the player's excuse/explanation -- "Yeah it's my bag but I had no idea what was in it" -- which, while it's one not likely to fly with law enforcement, might actually be somewhat accurate considering he voluntarily allowed the police to search his car after being pulled over for speeding nowhere near a border crossing (Colorado).

batmagadanleadoff Mar 22 2021 03:36 AM Re: 21 pounds

Frayed Knot wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I'm guessing that playing in Mexico in the winter season, and having a legit visa to come to the US in the spring, somebody made a mule of him. That was the player's excuse/explanation -- "Yeah it's my bag but I had no idea what was in it" -- which, while it's one not likely to fly with law enforcement, might actually be somewhat accurate considering he voluntarily allowed the police to search his car after being pulled over for speeding nowhere near a border crossing (Colorado). So if the drug dealers placed the drugs in the car without Corrales's knowledge, what did the dealers think was ultimately gonna happem being that Corrales was transporting the drugs unwittingly? How was Corrales supposed to complete the drug deal? I suppose that the dealers would eventually commandeer Corrales's car stateside and just take the drugs, right? Was that the story?

MFS62 Mar 22 2021 07:38 AM Re: 21 pounds

Frayed Knot wrote: he voluntarily allowed the police to search his car after being pulled over for speeding nowhere near a border crossing (Colorado). That's funny, because #45 said Colorado was on the border and his wall would protect it: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-border-wall-colorado/ In a speech in October 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump claimed his administration was building part of the border wall in Colorado. I'm guessing that guy wasn't on his way to a MENSA meeting. Later

Frayed Knot Mar 22 2021 09:55 AM Re: 21 pounds

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=58296 time=1616405778 user_id=68] So if the drug dealers placed the drugs in the car without Corrales's knowledge, what did the dealers think was ultimately gonna happem being that Corrales was transporting the drugs unwittingly? How was Corrales supposed to complete the drug deal? I suppose that the dealers would eventually commandeer Corrales's car stateside and just take the drugs, right? Was that the story?

Corrales acknowledged that someone paid him to transport the bag to a certain location but claims not to know the who, what, why of it all.



Years ago there was a similar story (though on a much smaller scale) involving the by then retired Joe Pepitone. And one of the explanations given was that if anyone would agree to take a plain brown paper bag with unknown contents across town to someone he didn't know and not ask questions about it, it would be Joe Pep.