Comments on: UCF’s Pot Supply May Go Dry After Major Bust

By: ovdobosshog#1

ovdobosshog#1 — Thu, 19 May 2011 00:39:25 +0000

Alot of these guys dont deserve this. Arresting a bunch of white college students selling pot is a huge waste of money. I mean shit, they are WHITE COLLEGE STUDENTS!! I knew a bunch of these guys and they were just tryin to support themselves by making an easy buck, please keep fighting these piece of shit laws against weed!!

By: Howie

Howie — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:02:13 +0000

anybody know what’s going on with this story? has any of the 41 arrested had their court date yet? anybody’s charges get dropped? more evidence? etc.

By: .....

..... — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:39:50 +0000

If that’s the life you wanna live then u gotta know the consequences…. Cole isn’t the reason everyone went Down… The CI is…. He was pretty dumb with the way he handled his biz … Very talkative on the phone… N ya look up all the names who were arrested there’s a few being charged with importing… Cole is getting it hard as well as some others as for the distributors there lawyers should be able to help them a lot… I’m sure there all gunna say where they were getting it from to reduce there charges…

By: Freethese guys

Freethese guys — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:21:23 +0000

Like i said in my last post i can see how they might have something against David and the other higher ups because they actually recovered physical evidence but for most of the people there seems to be no evidence BUT phone calls and video.

Im not saying that the cops dont have a case, but my friends top notch lawyer his parents got him will tear this apart for him. What evidence do they have on the smaller buyers? A phone call saying they were coming over to get something, a video of them walking in and out of Davids house with a school bag? They didnt even catch my friend with anything, it was just an arrest warrant. That means 10 years minimum??? Give me a break.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:34:04 +0000

If you guys don’t believe the evidence/proof/charges then look them up, do the research. Read the affidavit. They have 100% proof of every transaction David Cole made. And no his bond is not the highest, the higher ups that he got his goods from have bonds set at half a million. If you READ THE AFFIDAVIT…a CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT turned in David Cole, and from there police tracked who he got it from AS WELL AS who he sold it to. If David Cole were a little smarter, maybe he could have noticed that the cops were on to him FOR 6 MONTHS. The sheriff and police followed proper procedure in an investigation like this, this is nothing new for them. There is nothing sketchy…He is the reason that everyone else was arrested. They have every phone call conversation word for word between his customers and his sources. You think his charges are the most, you should see who he got his pot from. Either way, it’s all thanks to David Cole and the Confidential Informant that he sold to. He’s quite stupid if you ask me. There is a way to be smart about this business.

By: FREE DC

FREE DC — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:22:17 +0000

Where is the affidavit I would like to read that as well.

By: Freethese guys

Freethese guys — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:11:30 +0000

to Free DC

I had a very very close friend who was one of the 41 people arrested. He was also a ucf student. I guess hes considered a “distributor”. His bond was set at 50k, but luckily hes out. These guys are facing 10 years min, some life like Cole. Ive read a lot of the 700+ page affidavit. You ever watch HBO’s the wire? This is the real life of that. Trash digging, hidden car trackers, cameras set up in the street to watch his house, wiretapping, etc.

Cole is being charged with 120+ counts. By the looks of it, every count that Cole is being charged with is mirrored by the same charge to someone else, sometimes multiple charges to same buyer. My friend is facing a handful. that’s why daves supposedly the “kingpin” with a bond of 250,000 which is probably more so than anyone else involved.

Im no lawyer but something seems fishy. I can see how david cole could be charged with something small since they recovered drugs from his house, but as for my friend and some others they have no evidence other than phone calls and maybe video of people coming and going.At least listed in the charging affidavit that is.Guess there could/will be more evidence.

I hope this helps. Please dont let this story die. These good kids need help.

By: IV

IV — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:16:36 +0000

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-08-marijuana_N.htm

it is only a matter of time before all the states come around to legalization. the war on drugs is a joke. i wrote it in my diary and laughed about it later

By: FREE DC

FREE DC — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:18:57 +0000

All in all. I watched Cole grow up. He is a hell of a guy. I hate seeing this happen to him. There is nothing that anyone can do about it though. The legalization of Marijuana for any purpose is long ways away from the state of Florida. Unfortunately I believe that they will make an example of Cole this time. I listen to the story and I wonder why was all of this news about Cole? There were many distrubutors. Are they all facing the same amount of charges? I looked up the charges on the seminole county jail arrests page and I looked up a few of the names that were noted. Some were on Nebbia hold, but none of them had the amount of charges that Mr. Cole had. He was not the brains of the operation but he is going down the hardest.

By: MrAnderson

MrAnderson — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:56:44 +0000

The smarter people in any underground activity generally have a good amount of faith in themselves to make money in ventures other than the black market. The not so bright people don’t have as much faith in themselves, they know one way to make money and they’re gonna get a little reckless and stupid about their activities. I think we generally see the not so bright stoners going down and representing us in the media screaming things like “legalize weed” at a camera. The brighter kids a)don’t go down as often as people making stupid decisions that are just about the money. b)Don’t wanna openly scrafice themselves to the movement because they’re pretty sure none of this jail time and what not is worth it. Not to mention they have the pesky little faith in themselves that they’ll do well in other ventures. We need more educated people getting in the lime light.

All smart people to report to city hall, smoke out the lobby, get arrested, and continue to rant in an oraganized way. We’ll need to be about 100,000 people strong and have a bunch of old ass people with money. Go!

-Mr. Anderson