A paroled Connecticut man was caught hiding several bags of weed in his sock after he told authorities he was not dumb enough to bring drugs into a courthouse, the Stamford Advocate reported.
Darren Shelley, 22, showed up to his June 9 meeting with his probation officer at the Stamford courthouse reeking of marijuana. But when the officer asked Shelley about the smell, Shelley replied he was "not a fool" and "did not bring drugs into the court," according to the arrest affidavit obtained by the Stamford Advocate.
Probation officer Bronwyn Fisher then searched Shelly and found 19 bags of marijuana stuffed inside his left sock. Shelley, of Stamford, was re-arrested on charges of marijuana possession with intent to sell. He appeared in court on Thursday where a judge ordered him held on $5,000 bond.
Shelley was originally placed on probation after he was convicted for risking injury to a child in August 2013, according to the newspaper. He was released in March after serving 9 months of a three-year sentence and placed on three years of probation.
From March until May, Shelley repeatedly tested positive for marijuana after submitting urine samples as a condition of his parole. After testing positive for the ninth time in May, he was ordered to attend drug rehab at the Connecticut Renaissance agency, which treats severe drug abuse.
But the rehab apparently did not work because by June his urine tested positive again for one of pot's active ingredients, Tetrahydrocannabinol.
At his June probation meeting, Shelley told Fisher he smelled because his brother was smoking pot when he borrowed the sweatshirt he had on, the Stamford Advocate reported.
Shelley is scheduled to appear in court again on Monday. He faces serving the rest of his three-year sentence as a result of his re-arrest.
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