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N O R T H A M P T O N, Mass. Why do criminals launder their money? So it doesn't smell like marijuana, apparently.
When Nikita Santor was arrested on drug charges, her parents were good enough to try to bail her out. The only problem, police said, was that they brought the $50,000 in rolled up wads of $20 bills that smelled strongly of drugs. Police confiscated the money and Santor remains in jail.
Santor was first arrested on Dec. 18, when she and a companion, Michael Lenahan, were pulled over in their 1997 purple Dodge Intrepid for following another vehicle too closely, police said.
State Trooper Michael McCammon "detected the odor of marijuana emitting from the vehicle," police said. Inside, he found a pound of pot and $12,000 in cash, police said.
When they searched the couple's home, authorities allegedly found an additional 62 pounds of marijuana, 10 pounds of hashish, $2,700 in cash and an illegal .38-caliber handgun.
Santor's parents, Arlene and Martin, dutifully showed up with the cash to bail out their daughter on Dec. 30. A police dog confirmed officers' initial suspicions that the money reeked of reefer, authorities said.
Arlene and Martin Santor said that friends of their daughter had given them the money, police said.
N O R T H A M P T O N, Mass. Why do criminals launder their money? So it doesn't smell like marijuana, apparently.
When Nikita Santor was arrested on drug charges, her parents were good enough to try to bail her out. The only problem, police said, was that they brought the $50,000 in rolled up wads of $20 bills that smelled strongly of drugs. Police confiscated the money and Santor remains in jail.
Santor was first arrested on Dec. 18, when she and a companion, Michael Lenahan, were pulled over in their 1997 purple Dodge Intrepid for following another vehicle too closely, police said.
State Trooper Michael McCammon "detected the odor of marijuana emitting from the vehicle," police said. Inside, he found a pound of pot and $12,000 in cash, police said.
When they searched the couple's home, authorities allegedly found an additional 62 pounds of marijuana, 10 pounds of hashish, $2,700 in cash and an illegal .38-caliber handgun.
Santor's parents, Arlene and Martin, dutifully showed up with the cash to bail out their daughter on Dec. 30. A police dog confirmed officers' initial suspicions that the money reeked of reefer, authorities said.
Arlene and Martin Santor said that friends of their daughter had given them the money, police said.