Granny 'Drug Kingpin' Busted In Oklahoma

Granny 'Drug Kingpin' Busted in Oklahoma
By ABC News | ABC News Blogs – Sun, Apr 15, 2012 10:22 AM EDT

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ABC News' Alex Perez reports:
Silver haired and sweet faced, Darlene Mayes looks like many grannies but according to police, she is one of Oklahoma's biggest drug kingpins.
Her operation went up in smoke this week, when police entered her home and found 4 pounds of pot and $276,000 cash.
Police found $15,000 bundles of cash stashed away in the home.
Mayes initially told police the money was part of her retirement fund.
Police also say she was packing a semiautomatic pistol and a revolver.
Investigators say her alleged pot-dealing network spanned four states, from Tulsa, Okla., to Arkansas, Kansas, and Missouri.
Police believe she supplied up to 40 percent of the marijuana in that area.
As the mastermind, police believe she had a network of dealers, including her son Jerry who was also arrested.
Law enforcement expert Brad Garrett says harmless looking seniors can sometimes be the most efficient drug dealers.
"It doesn't surprise me that someone this age would be actively involved in marijuana distribution because there's just too much money to be made. If they keep a low profile, they don't talk to many people, and they don't get greedy, they can go on for years."
Mayes is not the first grandmother accused of ditching retirement for a second career in drug dealing.
In the United Kingdom, 68-year-old Patricia Tabram-dubbed the cannabis grandma-was charged with intent to supply after authorities say they found a marijuana farm in her home.
In Tennessee, an elderly couple was busted for selling prescription drugs.
But the grand-daddy of all drug crooks may be Francis Cook, 83, also known as Britain's oldest drug dealer.

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shrxhky420 said:

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tip top toker said:

Heh, there's a lady in my town in the UK who kept getting arrested for being a dealer. She used to make cannabis chicken pie and have big lunch parties for her and her elderly friends

Hehe
[video=youtube;ywuaGn9G0Bo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywuaGn9G0Bo[/video]

Everytime she get's caught she just repeats and does it all over. Way to tell the man to sod off

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bowlfullofbliss said:

I wonder if she was connected and moving weight of the dank, or the mexican frown brown sticks and stems LOL!

Something tells me this story will get bigger as they figure out her web. She ain't gonna live out her years in prison.......I can hear the canary already....tweet tweet tweet.

I'd be shitting my pants and moving asap if I worked with that one.

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xKuroiTaimax said:

Wow.. I'm going to email this story to my granny. When we move to Trinidad I have a shitload of land and know exactly what we're going to do with it.

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futrdc said:

I know some people in the area that said her business put her son out of business(same line of work) and he snitched on her. She posted bond and now he is in jail!!! Lol

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xKuroiTaimax said:

You pervert..lol

We're going to have a nice big garden project. If she thinks a few grams of SLH makes her kitchen smell nice we are going to have alot of fun with a few acres. Need to get the fuck out of this situation and this country ASAP.

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