Decatur man, 22, held after 13.5 ounces of marijuana found in home
Officers called to a shots fired complaint in the 600 block of East Grand Avenue in Decatur found nearly 13.5 ounces of marijuana inside a home and arrested a 22-year-old man. The man had told police he was shot at from a vehicle in the alley before officers went to the house.
🇺🇸 600 block of East Grand Avenue, Decatur, Macon County, Illinois · Illinois, United States
Decatur police arrested a 22-year-old man on a Saturday night after officers
found nearly 13.5 ounces of marijuana inside a home in the 600 block of East
Grand Avenue.[1]
A sworn Decatur police affidavit said officers were sent to the block just
before 5 p.m. over a shots fired call.[1]The 22-year-old told officers he had
been shot at from a vehicle in the alley.[1]
Officers obtained a search warrant and found a digital scale and a total of 380.4 grams, or 13.4 ounces, of marijuana in the residence.[2]The 22-year-old had $621 in his pocket and told officers he was unemployed.[2]In a police interview he said the marijuana was his but denied selling it.[2]He faced preliminary charges of possession of 30 to 500 grams of cannabis and manufacturing/delivery of 30 to 500 grams of cannabis.[2]He was held in the Macon County Jail in lieu of $75,000bail.[2]
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The article says the man was arrested on a Saturday night; 25 May 2019 is used as the incident date because the story was published on Tuesday 28 May 2019.
The amount is given as nearly 13.5 ounces, not an exact weight; 0.38 kilograms is the conversion of 13.5 ounces.
The charges, bail amount and court outcome were in subscriber-only text that the opened page did not show as readable article text.
The man is identified only by his age, and the address is given only as a block.
No photograph of this event was published with the accessible text; the images on the page are mug shots from an unrelated 2019 roundup and are not listed.
Only the Southern Illinoisan copy could be opened; the Pantagraph and JG-TC copies of the same story returned access errors.
The article says the seizure was 380.4 grams, or 13.4 ounces, while its opening sentence says nearly 13.5 ounces; the report keeps 0.38 kilograms as the conversion.
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