On Sep 29, 6:53 pm, Millhaven <millha...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> http://www.winonadailynews.com/articles/2007/09/28/news/05bread28.txt
>
> Woman found guilty after selling dried bread
>
> By Kevin Behr | Winona Daily News
>
> .
> If trying to smoke dried bread is a bad idea, passing it off as crack
> cocaine and selling it to a police informant is probably worse.
>
> But that's what a 25-year-old Winona woman tried to do in January.
>
> Heather Jo Sorum was found guilty Thursday of selling a simulated
> controlled substance and now faces up to three years in prison and a
> $20,000 fine for the offense.
>
> According to her testimony in Winona County District Court, Sorum was
> contacted several times by a Winona Police informant looking to buy
> drugs. Sorum said she refused several times but eventually relented
> and met the informant on Jan. 10 and sold her two bags of dried bread
> packaged to look like crack cocaine for $100.
>
> According to the criminal complaint, the informant didn't know Sorum's
> name but believed Sorum would sell her drugs. After the sale, the
> investigator believed the substance was used chewing gum.
>
> Judge Margaret Shaw Johnson also ruled Thursday that Sorum violated
> her probation for an October 2006 charge of malicious child punishment
> stemming from an incident in which she threw a 20-month-old child to
> the floor during an argument.
>
> Sorum is set to appear for sentencing Nov. 29.
awesome.
2forty
