The Southeast Alaska Cities Against Drugs (SEACAD) task force along with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) executed search and arrest warrants at the Gastineau Apartments on Franklin Street at 11 a.m. Thursday.
Juneau resident William S. Pittman, 29, was taken into custody on a $10,000 felony arrest warrant for three charges of misconduct involving a controlled substance stemming from a previous investigation conducted earlier in the year involving multiple sales of psilocybin mushrooms and marijuana.
Psilocybin mushrooms are fungi that contain the psychoactive compounds psilocybin and psilocin and are commonly referred to as “shrooms” or “magic mushrooms.”
A search of Pittman’s residence resulted in the seizure of a little over one pound of marijuana, three grams of psilocybin mushrooms, miscellaneous drug paraphernalia and more than $6,000 in suspected drug proceeds. Total street value of controlled substances seized over the course of the investigation is estimated at $17,000.
Pittman was taken to Lemon Creek Correctional Center on three counts of Misconduct Involving a Controlled Substance (MICS) in the Third. An additional three charges of MIC-4, and one charge of MICS-3 were forwarded to the Juneau District Attorney’s Office against Pittman.
Pittman was arraigned in Juneau District court before Judge Keith Levy on Friday for three counts of MICS-3.
Comments (65)
Add commentWere does the government
Were does the government receive the authority to tell a otherwise free person, what they can, or can not place in their own body?
If there is no direct harm, or infringement of others freedom, why is a individuals choice of intoxicants anybodies business?
Agreed
I agree with you madison,
Further Mr. Pittman is quite a nice and decent guy and its not like he was selling oxys and crack.
I wonder how many tax dollars were used for this multiple month investigation by our drug task force and the DEA...
Good Job JPD - Throw the book at him
Half the kids in this town don't even graduate high school because they're too doped out.
Cops need to start putting the boots to these guys.
no
reallynow, your right he was busted for selling weed & shrooms, nice guy or otherwise both are illegal to sell
"more than $6,000 in
"more than $6,000 in suspected drug proceeds.
"previous investigation conducted earlier in the year involving multiple sales of psilocybin mushrooms and marijuana."
The DEA must know more than The Empire.
Some drugs are illegal in our society no matter if the legalize crowd wants to compare them to alcohol and cigarettes or not. And until the laws are changed they will continue to be illegal.
Nobody can dispute that our kids are the targets and the drugs are taking a tremendous toll on them. I'm not sure what the answer is, but right now, certain drugs are illegal to use yourself or to sell.
A Pound?
A pound is more than "personal use." He would have sold it. Good for the JPD!
ok waterman 3 years.this
ok waterman 3 years.this fella will do at least 5 plus the fine.somethin wrong here.
ALL RIGHT MORE OF THE DRUGS OUT OF AK.
great Job.... more drugs out of ak. look at our papers look how drugs have effected our community, now we really need to make sure all our window's,door's and car's are locked up, at one point one man's home got broken into he was beat with a metal pipe, another held at gun point while in her car, home's being broken into and things stolen, ipods, computers, ect. Juneau was not like this before but now more drugs coming in the people will almost stop at nothing to get it. So my hats of to the Police who really do there Jobs to protect our community, and our family's. Thank you.
@Calypso
For once we agree on something!
Freedom from tyranny
Where will tyranny stop. This man commited no crime. There was no crime because there was no victim. He commited an infraction against the state. The state can not be a victim. The state typically represents the fews of the majority of people in the state. What this amounts to is tyranny of the many against the few. Even though this man harmed no one he will be harmed greatly by having his freedom taken away and no one knows what brutality he may have suffered at the hands of law enforcement or what he can expect while incarcerated. Our prisons should be for criminals, those that commited actual crimes (those that have harmed another individual or individuals by murder, rape or some form of theft). This state can not claim it is free until the populace learn what freedom means and what tolerance means until then it will be tyranny of the majority.
victims
Top, there's no such thing as a victimless crime
Victimless crime
Correct islandhopper, there is no such thing as a victimless crime. Meaning if there is no victim then there is no crime. If there is no crime then there should be no punishment.
Somehow i lack the ability to
Somehow i lack the ability to feel sorry for this guy, I work my butt off for 6000 bucks and i dont have to worry about going to jail for it. Im going to guess he did not have to work very hard for his 6000 bucks but he ran the the risk of his door being kicked in and going to jail. You play you pay, its as simple as that!
consider this
Ok by your reasoning since he's only sold to people he thought would use it for themselves ie no victims. I should be able to walk up eagle crest road tomorrow shoot a deer so I can have something to eat. No ones been hurt (well I guess the deer might think differently)so I haven't committed a crime right?
If that's the case then why do we need permit's for hunting, fishing heck for that matter a drivers license? After all I know how to drive & don't intend to harm anyone.
Ugh...
So, let's take a step back and ask a question before we even delve into the issue of whether or not this should be considered an illegal act. What laws are the JPD supposed to enforce? The answer to that is: city laws.
The nation's top drug agency (DEA) believes Juneau is better to go after than...I dunno...Harlem, Compton, The Deep South. JPD, for some reason, agreed that this was a desperate situation to be sure and arrested another twenty-something. This is ridiculous.
"There's no such thing as a victimless crime." You're an idiot. It was law for African Americans to sit at the back of the bus once. Rosa Parks was a criminal. Who was her victim? Who were going to be the victims of cannabis (stop saying marijuana - it's a word that is used to keep a Hispanic tone to the drug and frighten white people - historical fact, look it up) and the shrooms? "Our children" according to the thoughtless morons who believe that abstinence from all drugs is an achievable goal. The parents who "lost" their children to drugs were parents who were unable to accept that their child might be a "pothead."
Meth and opiates - these are dangers...real honest to god dangers, but even they would probably see a better system in legality than letting the drugs be made in trailers and hotel rooms.
How many tourists come through this town? How many are looking for cannabis? Why isn't cannabis legal in Alaska? Oh yeah! A bunch of moral crusaders confuse law and morality and we, the group who stands outside 'Republican' and 'Democrat' suffer because we are quiet.
Let me explain, briefly, how children get access to drugs. Take a neighborhood and pretend you have the most addictive drug ever created. Think to yourself, how am I going to get a neighborhood hooked. Do you go after kids? No, they have no money. You go after open-minded adults. In the case of 'crack' the adults began to use. They showed their friends. Friends got addicted to crack. After every adult is addicted to crack, and there's no money to find, only then would a slime-ball drug-dealer go to the kids. The kids will steal anything of value from the adults, give it to the drug dealer, and then the slime-ball dealer moves.
Too bad we're not talking about crack though. We're talking about cannabis. This drug takes a very different path. Freethinking adults use it. They have jobs. They don't run out of money. Their habit is expensive, but doable. They enjoy the drug with other open-minded adults. "The children" see the adults do it. Hopefully, hopefully the children talk with their parents, and around 16 or 17 they smoke weed and then go to parties and only pretend to drink, realizing alcohol is an inferior drug to cannabis. This "children" will smoke cannabis in college too. Mommy and daddy might blame it for bad grades, but it's not true. The kid was lazy and played too many video games. Then "the children" graduates, has 100K of student loans and a degree that is a photocopy of everyone around them. To handle two jobs "the children" use coke to push their body. "The children" dies young, but not from drugs. "The children" was thrown into a system that "the children" weren't supposed to succeed in.
Keep preaching abstinence and saying your child was ruined by drugs. Your child is experiencing 'The Side Affects of Being American.' Ever seen "Bigger, Stronger, Faster?" You should give it a watch if not. It's on Netflix.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: imprisoning your youth at a percentage that is higher than China, is not the answer. Stop thinking USA, start thinking AK, then trump that thought with Juneau. We can build a town the likes of which this world has not seen, or we can be idle Americans. Speaking of busy, my garage needs more cleaning...
Have A Wonderful Sunday
DaProf
AKA DaPuff
AKA D-Bag
AKA Mr. Right
the end
Top
I guess it comes down to the old saying, don't do the crime if ya can't do the time, because without laws & accountability anarchy would be the rule of law
DaPuff
Puff open up some windows & let some air into the room
Permits
You are correct again islandhopper. You only need a permit from the state to do things that would otherwise be deemed illegal. For example in england the common man could not shoot one of the king's deer without suffering the consequences. All of the deer in england were the king's deer. Therefore the king would rather you starve than take something that belonged to him. They were not free to subsist without permit from the sovereign (king). In a free land, one not ruled by a sovereign, you would not need a permit to take what you need to sustain your life. Therefore such permits are an affront to free people everywhere. Alternatively, if you are taking game and fish for commercial purposes that could be argued to qualify for permit restrictions.
The End
Islandhopper. What it comes down to is the only valid crimes are ones that have a victim that have suffered acts such as murder, rape and theft. If these were the only laws on the books then your assertion that anarchy would rule the day is hardly appropriate. You only need to read some history to realize unjust laws exist and have existed for hundreds of years. Adherence to such unjust laws simply because "they are on the books" is an affront to the principles this nation was founded on. Freedom should be the underpinning of laws, not fear.
You know what's really scary
Take a closer look at the name "DaProf", this person could very well be a Professor, and he could be teaching at UAS. Now, imagine, what is being fed into the minds of the students of "DaProf". Wow, we could end up with, a big mob, of big mouths, for years to come. Can you imagine that?
Hey flabbycat
Who are you to infer that because I happen to share the same opinion as DaProf I must also be gay and doing inappropriate physical things with him.
The only thing you bring to this board is a puny close minded intellect that fuels itself on it's own paranoia.
I agree with almost everything DaProf has said so far.
If any of you disagree why don't you take a look at a country like the Netherlands. Look at their stance on drugs and the related statistics on crime and total drug use compared to USA's own...
Edjuhmuhcated
You could be right, but the method of delivery is foul. To win, you & I should influence people in a positive manner. DaProf is a hot head, that doesn't help anything to become accomplished. I don't think drug dealers should run around our streets, I hope JPD catches every single one of them.
Thanks for taking out the trash!!!!
No more should our community be subjected to this. How many children will die from mushrooms and marijuana before we say enough?????
@droog900: Marijuana is harmless
I've never know anyone to die from ingesting marijuana. I don't think that can be done.
@Jo
Are you high? \People od on marijuana all the time!
Ich...
"However, right now the law of the land is what it is and if people are going to play with fire, they are going to get burned."
A lot of people in history have said this very thing. They were the people who did nothing while crowds of people yelled "[filtered word]" at people trying to enter segregated schools. They were the people who stood by and allowed every window of every Jewish business to be broken out, and never whispered the names of the transgressors.
Last night you were awake at 4am, waiting for me to answer your silly little thoughts. You wanted to know if I was cherry. Boy, at 4am, I was asleep with my wife, unaware that a teenager was awake by his computer pretending to own a nice home and waiting for me to show up.
Here's my answer to your newest stupidity:
Sentences 1-7 show me you know how to use Wikipedia. That's grade 'C' research for seventh graders. Check out Google Scholar.
From that point you explain why drugs should be legal, then you finish your thought with: "I smoke too much weed, guess it should be illegal, by golly."
You sit and watch while people change humanity. You are an angry youth looking for a dad figure to lash out at, and I'm not him, kid. I'm the person who wrote valid point after valid point and you ignored it all, to ask if I'm cherry.
When I'm controlling your thoughts again at 4am and you're looking for my attention, remember this: Nothing you can write, nothing, will get a response from me again. People pay to hear me think out loud, I'm done doing it for you for free.
KittyKat-
You were almost correct - I'm not a professor, I'm The Professor, and I'm done (to put it in language even cats can understand) batting around mice. You want everyone here to believe that you are in danger of being stabbed in this town at your work. Give an address, cankles.
One last thing: To those who believe I'm mean, you're wrong. I'm truth represented. Truth isn't nice. Truth doesn't come nerfed and wearing mittens. Truth stings. Cankles doesn't get a get-out-of-jail-free card because she is uneducated. She needs to get educated. Until then, she's stupid. You can tell stupid people they're stupid. No, it won't get you anywhere, but it will make them wince next time they decide to open their gigantic "cake and psalms" hole in a public setting.
You Can Thank Me Later. Goodbye.
The Professor
Ich rauche
What a spineless, mindless, hypocritical point of view you represent... You admit to smoking a bunch of weed, but try to call people out for smoking the last of their pipe/bong resin... (if you're still smoking resin crotch face you are a douche....)
I'd break you down further but I don't need to, you'll do it for me.
I actually do know Mr. Pittman, personally, and he has never been anything but a gentleman and a good person to everyone he meets... If you ask people that actually know him, even a few on this board, they would tell you the same... He doesn't sell his wares to vulnerable kids in this town nor would he stab you on the way to your car...
The punishment will not fit the crime... Evidence for nonviolent crimes is AWESOME!!! NOT!!! Tell me that again after reviewing the Rachel Waterman/Casey Anthony trials and preach to me about removing Mr. Pittman loridtabbycat.... Go buy Sarah Palin's book, watch her movie and STFU...
Timestamp
It's really only 12:22... The empire could F up a wet dream...
You bring up a good point...
The more money one has the easier it is to get off... What an awesome "justice" system we have...
Legalize and regulate all
Legalize and regulate all drugs, and use DaProf's posts in a PSA to illustrate what happens when one takes too many intoxicants, thus discouraging kids from becoming addicted.