basketball star, tons of marijuana and a reputation destroyed

[Quentin Daniels]

Miskiri should've bought a car wash.

I thought he was following the formula. Restaurant is also acceptable.

 

[Raider_SPE]

The most interesting part of the story is how they stopped him in Texas in 2009 via an anonymous tip with 200lbs. in a suit case.

Interrogated and then let go. So he thinks he got away with it and keeps on keeping on. Speculation, but maybe he was in too deep at that point and he could not get out. Amazing that it took 6 years to finally arrest him, which were for both the current crimes as well as the stop in 2009.

 

[Quentin Daniels]

Interrogated and then let go.

wait....WHAAAAAAATT??????

Holy shnike, how good was his f'n lawyer and where did you see that?

 

[Raider_SPE]

wait....WHAAAAAAATT??????

Holy shnike, how good was his f'n lawyer and where did you see that?

‘I’ll take the blame’
Six years ago, a Texas trooper found nine suitcases in a black Lincoln Town Car. Packed inside them were more than 200 pounds of marijuana, according to court documents, and sitting in the back seat was the man who had rented the car: Jason Miskiri.

It was March 23, 2009, and Houston investigators had received an anonymous tip that two men and a woman had come to town from Maryland to buy a large quantity of marijuana. A surveillance team followed the group to a home in Sugar Land, Tex., according to court records. The team watched the car back up to a maroon SUV. The trunk was opened, and soon after, the car pulled away.
A highway patrol officer stopped the Lincoln later that evening. The trooper, who noticed a large bag in the passenger-side seat, asked the rental’s hired driver to step outside. The chauffeur then gave the trooper permission to search the car, where he found the drugs.

During the search, Miskiri blurted something to the trooper: “I’ll take the blame for all of this.”

The car’s other occupant, Ciara Cedeño, who declined to comment for this story, told an investigator that she traveled with Miskiri only because he bought her a lot of clothes.

After his arrest, Miskiri was interrogated for nearly two hours at a police station. Initially, he was “very nervous because he knew he was in big trouble,” said a Texas law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the case. But Miskiri was not prosecuted — a not uncommon outcome in a border region where authorities sometimes choose not to bring charges so that they can pursue larger cases.

Before Miskiri posted bail and returned to Maryland, the official said, he told his interrogator how he became involved in drug trafficking: through connections he made during his professional basketball career.