Friday, June 21, 2013

73-year-old faces prison for pot...

On June 6, Ray Martin McFeters, 73, was charged in Aitkin County District Court with distribution or possession of more than 42.5 grams of marijuana and failure to attach tax stamps to the marijuana.

McFeters is also charged with felony possession of “not a small amount of marijuana” as stated in the criminal complaint filed with the Aitkin County District Court.

McFeters is a retired computer programmer who lives with his wife Patty on the north shore of Mille Lacs Lake. He learned to write code while serving four years with the United States Air Force in crypto maintenance during the Cuban missile crisis. He was honorably discharged in 1964.

“Yeah, I grew a few plants,” McFeters said. “I thought I was doing good by not supporting the cartels and everything like that.”

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Ray doesn’t like alcohol. “I tried it but it just made me sick,” he said. “And you can’t do computer programming when you’re drunk, but boy, you can sure do it when you’re stoned. After smoking pot my mind was like zippity-zippity-zippity. I was really good at my job.” Full story...

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