Assignment 5-1

Laura Levesque
Assignment 5-1
Tyler Grossman, a junior at The University of Maine, was arrested in October of 2008 for trafficking ecstasy at “harvest fest” in Harmony Maine.
Tyler and some friends arrived at harvest fest, a local music festival, with the intention of making a little bit of money and having a lot of fun. Little did they know, the Maine state DEA was also at this festival looking for people who were selling drugs. Tyler decided to pick up some ecstasy and try to sell it. When he found someone that was looking to buy the drugs, he and his friend Jordan Raven, another junior at Umaine, went to a corner of the festival where the “buyers” said to meet them. When Tyler and Jordan arrived at the meeting spot they quickly found out that these seeming harmless partiers were actually under cover cops. They were surrounded buy the police, put into hand cuffs, and brought to the local jail. Meanwhile, back at their friends’ camp, people started growing more and more worried because they could not get in touch with Tyler or Jordan at all and it all happened so fast that not one person even knew what had happened.
Tyler was held in custody for 48 hours until his bail of 3,000 dollars was posted by his, now, ex-girl friend. A few weeks after he was let out of jail his girl friend at the time got very mad at him because of what happened and decided to call the cops on his and tell them that he was breaking his bail and immediately there was another warrant out for his arrest. Tyler, obviously not knowing what exactly to do, decided to avoid the cops and head for his parents house in Southern Maine. About 12 hours after the warrant for his arrest was posted, he decided to turn himself into the police, and he was immediately arrested and put back in jail for the next 24 hours.
Since then Tyler has gone to court and was charged with the possession of a Class A drug, 20 ecstasy doses, 7 prescription drugs, and a paraphernalia charge. He will have to go to jail for about 6 weeks in the summer, so not to miss any school, and has to complete 300 hours of community service. “It is probably the hardest lesson that I have ever learned, but I can honestly tell you that I will never be in that position again. I have learned there is no easy way to make money” says Tyler.