Paul Wall Hopes He Never Faces Drug Charges
Written by Alyx on April 7th, 2006 in culture.
TACOMA, Wash. - Talk about taking a bite out of crime — government lawyers tried to remove and confiscate the gold dental work known as grillz from the mouths of two men facing drug charges.
“Asset forfeiture is a fairly routine procedure, and our attorneys were under the impression that these snapped out like a retainer,” said Emily Langlie, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Seattle.
According to documents and lawyers involved in the case in U.S. District Court, Flenard T. Neal Jr. and Donald Jamar Lewis, charged with several drug and weapon violations, were taken on Tuesday from the Federal Detention Center to the U.S. marshal’s office, where they were told the government had a warrant to seize the grills.
Before being put into a vehicle to be taken to a dentist in Seattle, they called their lawyers, who were able to halt the seizure, said Miriam Schwartz, Neal’s public defender. A permanent stay of the seizure order was signed Tuesday by U.S. Magistrate J. Kelley Arnold, court documents show.
~Alyx
April 7th, 2006 at 11:55 pm
“I’m an old gold tooth, and I’ll tell you the truth. I live in the mouth of a homie.” - RAP, The Musical