Finding drugs at Bonnaroo is like finding a pair of skinny jeans at a Brooklyn gastropub. Odds are, if you’re spending three summer nights in the scorching Manchester, Tennessee heat and shitting on shit in port-a-pottys, you’re likely taking some substances to make it all worth it. I road tripped from Boston to Tennessee back in 2013 for the festival, and I’d estimate that 8 out of 10 people were zooted on something. Guilty! They even had services surveying the camp grounds that offered to test your drugs to make sure you weren’t taking battery acid.
But like most things in life, if you’re smart, responsible and measured about having some illegal fun, you likely won’t run into any trouble. But if you’re not, then you’ll end up like a couple of these Chattanooga bros who were thrown in the slammer after police confiscated what the Coffee County Sheriff’s Office conservatively said was “a very large amount of drugs.”
Brian Anthony Wiley, 29, and Trevor Franklin Watson III, 24, were arrested on the very first day of the four-day festival on multiple drug-related charges after authorities were tipped off they were selling drugs to people, including festival attendees. There is no word that encapsulates that stupidity.
Here is the pharmacy Wiley and Watson were casually carrying around, via Radio.com:
On Wiley, deputies found:
202 jars of THC oil, weighing about 15 milliliters
2 bags of mushrooms, weighing about 7 grams each
3 bags with about 60 panes of blotter acid
241 bags of about 120.5 grams of what police believe is Ketamine
22 bags of white powder weighing about 144.5 grams of what police believe is cocaine
6 Xanax bars
220 bags weighing about 1,210 grams of a green plantlike substance police believe is marijuanaOn Watson, deputies found:
6 bottles containing 15 milliliters of THC oil
10 bags weighing 20 grams of a green plantlike substance police believe is marijuana
2 grams of a white powder police believe is cocaine
4 Molly capsules
14 bags of a crystal substance weighing 14 grams, which police believe is Molly
13 bags of a powdery substance weighing about 13 grams, which police believe is Ketamine
The two were also reportedly possessed a large amount of cash police believe was from previous transactions.
According to the Tennessean, Wiley faces charges of manufacturing, delivering, selling and possession of a controlled substance as well as possession of unlawful drug paraphernalia, while Watson faces charges of manufacturing, delivering, selling and possession of a controlled substance.
Wiley was being held on $255,000 bond Monday, and Watson was being held on $50,000 bond.
Moral of the story: Be smart. Or be like these old-timers.