Nate Carlisle of the SALT LAKE TRIBUNE reports today that if you’re a former NBA player and transporting several bags of weed in one of your unfortunate orifices while in a moving vehicle, you might want to consider wearing your selt belt.
(As cops found out and Whitney always sez, crack is wack)
Salt Lake County “gang detectives” pulled over a car yesterday because passenger Robert Whaley, a former NBA player with the Utah Jazz, wasn’t belted.
Then the fun began.
Carlisle:
Whaley, 27, had warrants for his arrest for absconding from a probation in Michigan. Whaley identified himself as Kareem Johnson, the document says. But police discovered his real name and that he had the arrest warrant.
“Robert was also found to be in possession of several baggies of marijuana that he was holding between his buttocks,” a police officer wrote.
Whaley remained in the Salt Lake County jail on Friday morning. The jail’s Web site says he is being held in lieu of $10,000 bail.
A state of Michigan Web site lists Whaley has having a 2008 conviction for maintaining a drug house. It says he has absconded from parole in that state.
Good thing police got to the bottom of that. The Clippers were all set to draft Kareem Johnson next season.
1:04 pm on March 12th, 2010
seat belt or seatweed
2:06 pm on March 12th, 2010
brings new meaning to the term, “Skunk Butt”
2:20 pm on March 12th, 2010
if it wasn’t for the NBA…95% of these guys would already be in jail.
2:29 pm on March 12th, 2010
this is why they call it “stink weed”.
4:11 pm on March 12th, 2010
Carter, you typifies what is wrong with the world.
5:27 pm on March 12th, 2010
Thank goodness Deron Williams doesn’t hang out with this clown anymore. Definitely one of the worst draft picks the Jazz ever made.
5:47 pm on March 12th, 2010
It infuriates me that, in many places, police can pull someone over for not wearing a seat belt. I almost always wear mine, but the fact that it’s an offense that allows an officer to pull someone over is terrible in my opinion.
7:10 pm on March 12th, 2010
Lou p ur an idiot, never post on here again
7:14 pm on March 12th, 2010
As a result, the weed had a street value of: worthless.
8:38 pm on March 12th, 2010
Carter-why because they are black? Yeah, 95% of all black people are in jail, right. You are an idiot and if it wasn’t for your skin color, you would be sitting where you are right now.
11:18 pm on March 12th, 2010
Lou P. sounds like a normal American. We normals aren’t fond of the encroaching police state. People like “S” are typical of the fools leading us to Idiocracy.
I also find it disturbing that “gang detectives” are stopping seatbelt offenders and going after consensual non-crimes. While the gang police may be completely unnecessary employees propped up by a police state job stimulus program, assuming they do have a purpose, I would assume a “gang” detective should be out there working on the crimes of violent gangs, not traffic citations and alternative substance consumption.
6:44 am on March 13th, 2010
lou its a law . wear your seat belt make sure all your lights work then go home and get as high as you want.
7:27 am on March 13th, 2010
he looks terrible! he needs to get his life in order and fast.
9:44 am on March 13th, 2010
this guy needs spiritual help.so does carter i’ll be praying for u all. pray for me please
2:28 pm on March 13th, 2010
I’m gonna make my guy re-bag my stuff in front of me next time we hook up
9:09 pm on March 13th, 2010
lol..just for the record…if it were not for the NFL, 95% of those guys would be in jail too!!!….lmao…
8:44 am on March 14th, 2010
what the hell
9:52 am on March 14th, 2010
I think it is great police can pull over drivers for not wearing seatbelts. Seatbelts save lives, saving lives cuts down on my car insurance premiums. Buckle up, chumps!
10:32 am on March 14th, 2010
can’t believe no one said anything about his name being “whale”n, my goodness, did he also hide some double cheeseburgers in his fat rolls?
11:52 am on March 14th, 2010
How can you idiots say there is a problem with them pulling someone over for not wearing a seatbelt, when if they hadn’t they wouldn’t have busted him? Funny, he’s the one with the warrant, he’s the one with the weed, but it’s the cops that are in the wrong just for doing their jobs? LOL this bleeding heart bull**** has got to stop. Pretty simple people, dont be a piece of ****, and you won’t get arrested. Where has all the common sense gone?
1:40 pm on March 14th, 2010
He coulda been wearing 10 seat belts, Utah’s gotta be one of the worst states for DWB.
1:54 pm on March 14th, 2010
Cops have the law (rules that are passed by legistlators) behind them when they pull over people for breaking the law for things like not wearing a seatbelt. And for those of you who do not think that this is a good idea and that marijuana is an alternative substance with no consequence, one word - JUAREZ, coming soon to a north american city near you.
3:23 pm on March 14th, 2010
hahahahaha stupid athlete
10:14 pm on March 14th, 2010
These are funny comments. Allow me to reiterate that comment about DWB in Utah. I wouldn’t even be surprised if the guy actually had his seatbelt on and the crooked cops are lying about that. With that being said, yes the guy should’ve had it on, if he didn’t, but he still woulda got pulled over. I’m from MI, where the Detroit area is the most racist in the entire country. Once you drive outside the city, you’re guaranteed to get pulled over by some white racist ***wipe. About the 95% comment……AND? Get some skillz and don’t be so jealous, fool!
5:13 am on March 15th, 2010
i agree
9:28 am on March 15th, 2010
if it wasnt for stealing, lying and cheating, then 95% of owners and the rich would be in jail also along with those with there racist post.
10:54 am on March 15th, 2010
sounds like this cat has issues.
11:40 am on March 15th, 2010
How is one a piece of %hit for smoking weed? I’d say you’re more of a piece of *hit for harassing someone for smoking weed. Regarding this incident specifically, I have no comment because I wasn’t there.
1:54 pm on March 15th, 2010
Being a black man in this country Im really tired of the old excuse DWB.. If you break the law you should be punished. This man was stopped for a minor traffic violation true enough, but he had oiutstanding warrants not to mention a illegal substance in his possession. Bottom line.LOCK HIS BUTT UP
1:59 pm on March 15th, 2010
The fact of the matter is if you do the crime you will do the time in some shape or form. It is unjust in some instances where you have these criminals hiding behind a badge claiming to be peace officers. However to wrongs don’t make a right and all the money in the world can’t hide who an indivisual is as a person. To say that +90% of the profesional athletes would be prison bound if they were not athletes is indeed a false statement get some concrete fact and non bias data to support your statements before you open your foolish mouth a coment!!!
3:07 pm on March 15th, 2010
they were pulled over for DWB they were driving a 2G lac on dubs he had some bobby brown in his butt some dutches on the dash a pack of newport 100s w. one left and gave a girls name. Book him hes retarded
4:27 pm on March 15th, 2010
Here’s a question. He had a conviction in 2008 for running a damn drug house…so why in 2010, a mere 2 years later is he on parole???
And what’s with picking on the police? Like people said, don’t commit a crime, don’t go to jail, simple as that, whether or not he was only pulled over for DWB. I’ve been pulled over for no reason too, but the difference is I didn’t give a fake name and wasn’t absconding parole, so I didn’t end up with a problem because of it.
Also, anyone jumping all over Carter, maybe you are the real racist. He didn’t say 95% of black people would be in jail. He said 95% of the people in the NBA. The NBA obviously has a higher percentage of thugs than the normal day to day society most of us live in. Maybe not 95% of them, but higher than usual (which also includes the likes of The Birdman who is white). Carter never said anything about black men, so whoever is calling him racist drew that conclusion on their own. How many NBA rosters had at least 1 player that had a run in with the law? And forget teams like the Denver Thuggets that could field a prison team.
9:53 pm on March 15th, 2010
Robert Whaley, One Child Lift Behind?
7:05 am on March 16th, 2010
Heck I’m gad we took over the NBA,NFL whatever, cops never serve or protect us, its all bull anyway, no matter how hard hey try to stop us, we rise and rise, and then dunk. We cant be stopped!
9:30 am on March 16th, 2010
Why do you think they call it dope?
10:54 am on March 16th, 2010
G-man, you’re an idiot. Only fools that know nothing about this plant and want to make it sound sinister, call it dope. It’s safer than alcohol and tobacco, but people like you don’t care about being fair. Seatbelt laws are retarded and so are marijuana laws. If people like you had their way, police would be allowed to pull over and arrest people just because they feel like it.
11:08 am on March 16th, 2010
Seatbelt laws are’nt in place for our own good. That law exists so police can hand out even more tickets and get more money. I got a seatbelt ticket about 10 years ago. $85 for endangering nobodys safety is a load of crock.
11:29 am on March 16th, 2010
Seatbelt laws only exist to bring in more money for the police and state. $85 for not endangering anybodys safety is just wrong. Red light runners deserve tickets, not people not wearing their seatbelts! What’s next? If your vehicle doesn’t have air bags you get a ticket?
1:23 pm on March 16th, 2010
Wow, this post certainly sparked an interesting array of responses, didn’t it?
In Utah, driving without a seatbelt is a “primary” offense (where you can be pulled over for it) only for drivers/passengers who are 18 and under. For 19 and older, it’s a “secondary” offense. Whaley is 27.
Unless the driver (or another passenger) was 18 or younger and not wearing a seat belt, I suspect that police had another source of probable cause to stop the vehicle.
4:34 pm on March 16th, 2010
YOU ALL ARE DUMB AS SHIT HE BROKE THE LAW NOW HE’S GOIN TO JAIL END OF STORY
6:40 pm on March 16th, 2010
It’s hardly the end of the story, CRAZY4. Consider what happened in 2003 when Steve McNair was arrested on DUI but ended up getting off of the charge because the officer who pulled him over did not have probable cause to do so.
Probable cause is vital — it’s a protection given to all Americans by the 4th Amendment.
11:04 pm on March 16th, 2010
Too many of you guys trust the police and it’s going to get you in a lot of trouble.
9:32 am on March 17th, 2010
when will these athletes learn. they become millionaires for playing a game and they screw it up. I just dont get it.
8:24 am on March 18th, 2010
I think too many of us blacks overlook the fact that some people are going to have some preconcevied notions that what one of us do all of us do. All we have to mention is the fact that “most” serial killers are white. The bottom line is, we all need to judge every individual on his or her on actions. Not every black man is a crack or pot head . Despite the fact of the racial disparity in sentecing, there are more white people doing the same things but they arent targeted. This is racial profiling at its best.
10:32 am on March 18th, 2010
Common sense would tell you to mind your “p’s” and “q’s” when carrying anything illegal or illicit.
As a white man I was harassed regularly by cops (white and black) on the Upper East side NYC when I would go to visit my black girlfriend.
Racism is a 2-way street, as I have been subject to racism constantly when I was living in NYC.
I managed a large and very popular comedy club in Manhattan. Part of what I had to do was ’seat the room’, or take people to their chairs, like an usher. It would not fail every week, almost every night, I would escort a black couple to a table and before even looking at where their seats were in relation to the stage they would look at me and tell me: “we don’t like these.” I would then have to point out how close to the stage they were and just how good their seats actually were. Then, when they took a moment to actually look at where their seats were, they would shut up and sit down. Not even a thank you.
It happened so often that I eventually began to realize just how racist blacks are too. These people could not get past my suit and the color of my skin.
I even caught s%@t from blacks because they would get upset when (after they asked me) I told them I didn’t vote for Obama. I didn’t vote for anybody because black, white, red, blue; it’s all about the money.
Now how is that fair? Just because I didn’t vote for Obama I have to explain (in detail) why because I will be called a racist if I don’t?
Point is I agree with slicka23: The bottom line is, we all need to judge every individual on his or her on actions.
BUT! I disagree with slica23’s statement about whites not being targeted.
Urban ghettos are predominately black/minority. Police presence in cities are outragous compared to rural areas.
Rural ghettos are predominately white, and as I mentioned, the police presence in rural areas are a sliver of what they are in cities.
So, all the ghetto white trouble makers have more room to get away with more, because they have less people looking over their shoulder.
Regardless, keep voting in politicians that look out and protect their own, and we will continue to waste our time and energy crying to a blog.
12:52 pm on March 18th, 2010
@Mr.T im sorry for your incidents at your place of business, but please remember that not to long ago black people were FORCED to sit at the back of restaurants so dont think is personal against you my friend its a habit thats forced upon us,i am i black Rasta-man who drives a 911 porsche im miami, i get pull all the time to a point that i dont even ask why anymore, i just make sure my papers are straigt and also my life so, they have to let me go(hopefully), but if i ride dirty i should be prepared to face the consequences.