Mary Ann of ‘Gilligan’s Island’ Caught With Marijuana in Car
DRIGGS, Idaho Perhaps they should have named her Mary Jane.
A surprisal birthday party for Dawn Wells, the actress who played Mary Ann on “Gilligan’s Island,” terminated with a near three-hour tour of the Teton County sheriff’s business office and jail when the 69-year-old was picked up with ganja in her fomite while motorring home.
Wells is nowed serving six months’ unsupervised probation for the offense. She was condemned Feb. 29 to five days in jail, ticketted USD 410.50 and located on probation after pleadinging guilty to one count of rash driving.
The shamefaced plea came up as part of an understanding with public prosecutors in that three misdemeanour counts - motorring under the influence, possession of drug paraphernalia and ownership of a controlled substance - existed dropped.
The instance began the dark of Oct. 18, when Teton County sheriff’s Deputy Joseph Gutierrez copped Wells as she was motorring home from a surprisal birthday party. She posted USD 4,000 bond and was arraignedded on the complaints the postdating day, pleadinging not shamed. A run on the thing was scheduled for March 13, but was called off because of the supplication agreement.
Harmonizing to the sheriff’s business office report, Gutierrez forced Wells over after discoverring her swerve crosswise the fogginess lines and center lines of State Highway 33 and repeatedly speed up and slow down.
“I left my patrol fomite and instantly was capable to reek a potent odor of burning down marijuana,” Gutierrez pent in his report. “As I neared the fomite I noticed all four windowpane of the fomite were lowered and the female device driver was non wearing a crown.”
When Gutierrez inquired why he could smell marihuana, Wells reportedly told him that she’d only given a drive to three hitchhikers and had got dropped them off when they set about smoking something. When Gutierrez sought the auto, he set up three half-smoked joints in the ashtray and console, agreeing to the study. A second search after Wells’ arrest lacy a fourth half-smoked joint and two small cases upon to salt away marijuana, Gutierrez articulated.
After Wells neglected a battlefield sobriety test, she was cuffed and interpreted to the sheriff’s business office.
Wells’ lawyer, Ron Swafford, of Idaho Falls, said the Post Register that an ally of Wells’ voluntarily testified that he’d went forth a small amount of Cannabis sativa in the fomite after having ill the fomite that twenty, and that Wells was incognizant of it.
Swafford informated several witnesses existed prepared to bear witness that Wells held very small to imbibe at the political party and was non intoxicated when she went forth. He expressed she was swerve on the route because she was stressful to happen the warmer controls in her new machine.
Wells is the laminitis of the Idaho Film and Television Institute in Driggs and the arranger of the region’s annual menage movie fete called the Spud Fest.