Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey issued the following statement.
On Saturday, June 22, 2025, approximately 1:17 AM, a deputy with the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department Interdiction Task Force conducted a traffic stop on Hwy 49 near Hwy 80 in Pearl, MS, after observing a white Chevrolet SUV failing to maintain a single lane of travel. While speaking with the driver, John Jermaine Norman; the deputy began to suspect his involvement in criminal activity. The deputy asked for and received consent to conduct a search of the vehicle. During that time, a man-made, aftermarket compartment was found within the SUV which contained 20 kilos of suspected Cocaine.
John Norman was arrested for Trafficking a Controlled Substance and transported to the Rankin County Detention Center where remains on without bond until his initial appearance.
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He gave permission for a search? Bwa, ha, ha. Must be an alumnus of JPS. (I bet KF won't publish this).
You lose, loser.
From South Carolina. https://www2.rankincounty.org/so/inmate/current.php
Steve Gaines told y’all “we back baby!”
that is a very nice looking stack of cocaine.
@12:42 Nice indeed.
welp, there goes my weekend plans...
High quality cocaine is literally the best drug. It doesn’t make you as completely worthless as heroine. There is a reason it fueled the best artists of the 60s, 70s, and 80s. And it fueled the boom of the 80s. Heroine destroyed it all in the 90s. It ruined music too. Weed and alcohol are actually depressants. But cocaine gives you power. It gives you strength. It gives you creativity and enlightenment. The problem happens when you run out of cocaine and lack the resources to restock. But we could unlock the best of this country if we all got a daily ration of cocaine to fuel our innovation and creativity without the need to resort to crime.
“man-made” aftermarket compartment?
"man-made" ? LOL as opposed to a natural aftermarket compartment
"how did that get in there?"
Coca Cola Co. agrees with you, hence the name "coke."
Maybe the after-market compartment was "AI made."
Why put a thief up your nose to steal your brain?
I wanna party with 2:14!
What's that stash worth?
Rankin county sure makes a lot of these “wreck-less driving “ stops. I think something else is going on. They can’t be that lucky.
To 2:14, complications of nasal septum holes from snorting, together with ragged coronary arteries and cerebral artery aneurysms make cocaine less desirable to me. No thanks.
@2:14 PM, we could mandate it and call it Soma!
Guy must not have paid his toll to local law enforcement to get his pass through to the next jurisdiction. Either that, or this guy is the designated "bust" so that the Sherriff can pretend that he is doing something. If the latter, this guy will post bond and skip the state (maybe, the country). In that case, no one gets hurt, the LEOs get to be on the news, and the coke will go to the "evidence locker".
@7:41 Liver stained hands typed that post
What "...fueled the boom of the 80s", was the entry into the workforce, of an EXTREMELY INTOLERANT generation (sometimes called 'Generation Jones'), who worked-like-Hell to better themselves. Contrary to the values PUSHED-AT-THEM, and ASCRIBED-TO-THEM, most were completely intolerant of drugs, became intolerant of alcohol, learned how to have sex in ways which did not cause problems (like unwanted babies and AIDS), and - perhaps most importantly, militantly intolerant of tobacco products.
Previous generations were CONCERNED. Doctors were concerned that nobody was drinking, anymore. Greatest Generation folk were upset that Generation Jones was shunning smokers (and wishing them death): "Young man, you should at least have a lighter handy, in order to be able to light a lady's cigarette." (answered with, "The stinkin' ----- can go ---- herself!")
The Intolerant Generation raised a generation of well-behaved children (despite what we're incessantly told), who've raised a generation of well-behaved children. They read the books. They implemented the strategies. Their kids are amazing.
The guy who did trash-outs for our Seattle office buildings - 15 years older than me - described the time, in the Late '60s, when the dichotomy appeared, between "Good Kids" and "Bad Kids". Previously, everybody "did FFA (Future Farmers of America)". "Then drugs appeared, and everybody got suspicious and guarded and all the fun was over." He grew up with the Swedish and Dutch kids who came to own the Pacific Northwest - or to die as broken losers. The druggies died - broke, unwanted, unmourned - families glad to be rid of them. The Good Kids still own the land under Seattle and Portland. He still knew them, and introduced us to a few. His funeral was like a Who's Who of the PNW. (even though he'd fallen-in, briefly, with the druggies, ending his own ascent into the PNW Stratosphere). But he was an Early Boomer: not Generation Jones.
In Eastover, and in similar neighborhoods all over Mississippi, there are people of that Intolerant Generation, who've never fried anything in their lives. They did not own pets. There is no booze in their houses. Heaven help anyone who tries to smoke ANYTHING, in their houses, or in their cars (even the Lexus service staff...). There is no sugar in their houses (even for starting the yeast in breads and pastries, now that flour/grains have been banned from their lives). They have never paid for TV. Now, post-2020, they've even learned how to avoid restaurants (and tipping).
Instead, they've bought stocks. They've bought land. Mostly, they WORK: EFFECTIVELY - more effectively than any other generation in the history of Mankind. YOU CAN DO THAT, WHEN YOU'RE SOBER. The wealth they've created (and the DIY work the've done in their "off-hours", around their homes), have created vast, wealthy, nearly-perfect suburbs). "World Leaders" have been noting this, and resenting this, for decades. "World Leaders" have sought to replace these Americans with less wise and less industrious people.
The Intolerant Generation hate the Left Wing. They hate the Right Wing. They hate ideologies and the various 'Opiates of the People' (like sports). Their negative feelings regarding Obama, Bush, and Clinton, saved The Intolerant Generation from getting jabbed. That press conference, with those three Worst Presidents, decked-out in identical overcoats, urging everybody to get the shot, was enough to warn 'The Intolerant Generation'. "Must be REALLY bad, if those three are pushing it."
So, they're not dead. "World Leaders" have not succeeded in killing them, yet. The Intolerant Generation are still out there, still gym-toned and thin, still making America great, with the Puritanism and Cynicism which have always made America great.
I'll let you get back to your drugs, now....
Good lord @2:32 PM nobody is going to read your unhinged delusions. The music and creativity was fueled by cocaine. Those great albums and movies. Also, Apple and Commodore. Sorry you were a total square and missed out.
I started college, at 17, in '82. What I remember, is how desperate everybody was, to find better music than what one could buy, and what was on the radio. WZZQ was gone, but students preceding us, used to call the station, and ask about the music used in backgrounds for commercials. That's the only way we knew about Kraftwerk and Michael Hoenig (or even their genre). Rich kids (to us) from the Piedmont Atlantic Region (Charlotte to Atlanta, with remote outposts in Monroe and Greenville - a Greenville girl had actually KNOWN Joan Jett, in Paris), knew the Punk and New Wave groups, like the 'B52s' and 'The Cars'. Otherwise, what I'd grown up with, and what was still on Mississippi radio, in the '80s, and in the record stores, was TOTAL, ABSOLUTE CRAP.
Someone on campus, managed to smuggle-in bootlegged tapes from "Menefee's" in New Orleans (a "lifestyle complex", whose members-only gym/pool/back bar area played music a cut above American tastes), and that's how we knew about Italo Disco - 'The Flirts' being my personal favorite. But all the American "great" music, seemed to glorify being a total piece of shit. On Bandcamp, I've found the old tapes from 'Studio 54' and 'The Saint', from the period when all the famous people were hanging out in those clubs' basements, doing Cocaine. THE MUSIC WAS TOTAL GARBAGE.
Maybe it was the drugs, which made you THINK you were listening to something good?
As for the films, our composite reaction to most of the ones from that glorious era you describe, is: "This is AWFUL! It makes no sense, at all! Was everybody ON DRUGS?" (And by "everybody", we meant the writers, the producers, the investors, the actors, the directors, and the crews.)
Thanks for confirming what we've suspected. It was the DRUGS.
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