Jason Mewes in Legal Trouble - AGAIN
Banky Bruce X
Back," but Jason Mewes missed a court hearing on a charge that he violated his
probation for a felony heroin possession.
Mewes had failed to show up for required meetings with his probation officer,
which has led Monmouth County, N.J. law enforcement agencies to schedule a
revocation hearing in Superior Court. Mewes's lawyer, Peter O'Mara, blamed the
revocation bid on "miscommunication" between probation officers in New Jersey
and Los Angeles, where Mewes now lives and where his probation is apparently
supervised.
Mewes was busted after a March 1999 traffic stop in Keansburg, a Jersey Shore
town. Police there spotted a '93 Plymouth, with Mewes in the passenger seat,
driving on Main Street "with its air bag deployed." When cops pulled the car
over, they noticed Mewes trying to stash a "metal package" in his girlfriend's
purse. After discovering a hypodermic needle in the container, they searched
Mewes and found a small bag of heroin in his sock.
He pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled dangerous substance, and was
sentenced to two years probation, ordered to undergo substance abuse
counseling, and submit to random urine testing. Mewes was also fined $1000, had
his drivers license suspended for six months, and was ordered to perform 200
hours of community service.
Mewes, who has played a hilarious stoner in director Kevin Smith's films, also
appeared in the music video for last summer's most requested song, Afroman's
drug-themed "Because I Got High." Mewes and Smith are seen in the video smoking
PCP laced marijuana.
Judge Michael D. Farren was joined in his Freehold courtroom by Monmouth County
prosecutor Sean Brennan and a representative from the probation department. But
neither Mewes nor a lawyer for the actor appeared--though the violation of
probation (VOP) hearing date had been set four months earlier.
Farren then signed a bench warrant for the arrest of Mewes, which remains
active until Mewes is either picked up or surrenders himself, said William
Guidry, Monmouth's deputy first assistant prosecutor.
Big Mad Drongo
"Banky Bruce X" <banky...@aol.com> wrote in message
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Wasn't this same story posted here a few months back?
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