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Police Chief John Timoney's Son Arrested

By Jeralyn, Section Crime in the News
Posted on Wed Nov 02, 2005 at 03:38:39 PM EST
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This is sad.

The 25-year-old son of Miami police Chief John Timoney was arrested for trying to buy 400 pounds of marijuana from an undercover federal agent, the Drug Enforcement Administration said Wednesday.

A court complaint said Sean Timoney of Philadelphia gave the agent a gym bag filled with approximately $450,000 in cash.

Update: Ed Hayes will represent Sean Timoney. While the news article states the penalty could be 40 years, the guidelines for 200 kilos of marijauna are around five years. If Timony pleads guilty, they would be less. If he cooperates and tells who else was in on the deal (the source of the funds) he'd get even less. And with the guidelines are no longer mandatory, he could catch even a bigger break.

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    Police Chief John Timoney's Son Arrested | 17 comments (17 topical)
    Re: Police Chief John Timoney's Son Arrested (none / 0) (#1)
    by Darryl Pearce on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:41 PM EST
    I often fantasize about finding a bag full of case someplace... but that dream is tempered by the reality of so much misery wrapped up in so much illegal cash.

    Re: Police Chief John Timoney's Son Arrested (none / 0) (#2)
    by Darryl Pearce on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:41 PM EST
    ...um, that is... bag full of cash...

    Re: Police Chief John Timoney's Son Arrested (none / 0) (#3)
    by Quaker in a Basement on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:41 PM EST
    ...um, that is... bag full of cash...
    Ooops. Well, when the UPS guy tries to deliver the big bag of case I sent your way, just tell 'im Darryl moved.

    Re: Police Chief John Timoney's Son Arrested (none / 0) (#4)
    by scarshapedstar on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:41 PM EST
    Surely it's pure coincidence that the police chief's son had 450 grand in cash, right, Patrick?

    Re: Police Chief John Timoney's Son Arrested (none / 0) (#5)
    by Johnny on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:41 PM EST
    Is this a case of the acorn not falling far from the tree? Or is it a case of "Noelle Bushism"?

    Re: Police Chief John Timoney's Son Arrested (none / 0) (#6)
    by aw on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:42 PM EST
    Is this a case of the acorn not falling far from the tree? Or is it a case of "Noelle Bushism"?
    No, it's a case of chickens coming home to roost, or something like that.

    Re: Police Chief John Timoney's Son Arrested (none / 0) (#7)
    by Patrick on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:42 PM EST
    Scar, What a police chief's son can't use medicine? If it's not bad for anyone, then it's not bad for a cops kid. Of course I don't believe that and it's intellectually dishonest to hammer him because of his father, if you support legalization. Either way, he sounds like a drug dealer to me.

    Re: Police Chief John Timoney's Son Arrested (none / 0) (#8)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:42 PM EST
    Obviously, here is a kid who took DARE faaaaaaaaaaar too literally. Yup, that War On Drugs is working so swimmingly well, dontcha think? Hell, even the children of law enforcement aren't listening.

    Re: Police Chief John Timoney's Son Arrested (none / 0) (#9)
    by Dadler on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:42 PM EST
    Who cares? This is a monumental waste of time and resources. Pot should be legal. Although I'm sure Mr. Police Chief will now find it in his heart to lobby for a reduced sentence -- exactly the oppostite of what he'd do for anyone else. Brew your own beer, you're fine. Grow (buy, use) your own plant, you're not. This is called puritanical illogic, the kind our nation was founded on. The pilgrims drank beer, came ashore where they did partly because they'd run out of fresh water to make their frothy spirits. And alcohol is the national drug. While pot gets treated like witches did in Salem. Pointless, ridiculous, and counterproductive to the nth degree. What year is this? Jeez.

    Re: Police Chief John Timoney's Son Arrested (none / 0) (#10)
    by Dadler on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:42 PM EST
    And might I add a link: A brief poltical history of Hemp/Marijuana prohibition in the U.S.

    Re: Police Chief John Timoney's Son Arrested (none / 0) (#11)
    by pigwiggle on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:42 PM EST
    It’s quite a stretch to hold this guy in any way responsible for what his 25 year old son does or doesn’t do. Depending on the quality it doesn’t sound like much of a deal to me; 400lb @ $70/oz. In my experience the markup on even a 1/4lb sold in 1oz portions is around 500%. To get that kind of markup he would probably need to make ~400 transactions himself. This guy isn’t much of a businessman. Buying weed from the DEA at DEA propaganda ‘street value’ prices; what a tool

    Re: Police Chief John Timoney's Son Arrested (none / 0) (#12)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:42 PM EST
    "I often fantasize about finding a bag full of case someplace... but that dream is tempered by the reality of so much misery wrapped up in so much illegal cash." Funny, I have first hand knowledge of a guy that did just that. Two bags, actually, and two suitcases. This minimum-wage janitor at a self-storage facility now owns a nice home. He tells people that he won the Canadian lottery. No idea what happened to the stressed-out character who showed up the day after asking about the bags and suitcases...

    Re: Police Chief John Timoney's Son Arrested (none / 0) (#13)
    by kdog on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:42 PM EST
    I'm impressed when a 25 year old child of a civil servant can come up with half a million in cash. He must have had quite a distribution operation going. I hope none of my connects go through this particular distribution chain, the Christmas time drought is bad enough:) What's going on with law enforcement in my neck of the woods. The DEA focusing on reefer, the NYPD focusing on poker clubs, do they really have nothing better to do on our dime?

    Re: Police Chief John Timoney's Son Arrested (none / 0) (#14)
    by glanton on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:42 PM EST
    "the Christmas time drought is bad enough:)" You said a mouthfull there.

    Re: Police Chief John Timoney's Son Arrested (none / 0) (#15)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:43 PM EST
    Another classic, this time from pigwiggle:
    It’s quite a stretch to hold this guy in any way responsible for what his 25 year old son does or doesn’t do.
    LOL. The party of family values finally speaks up. Gee, I wonder who in Florida could sell a quarter of a million dollars in weed. Couldn't be the MOB, could it? I bet the police department vice cops were too busy looking into that new scourge: prostitution. That and whistling past the graveyard of the chief's office. TOAST.

    Re: Police Chief John Timoney's Son Arrested (none / 0) (#16)
    by pigwiggle on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:43 PM EST
    “LOL. The party of family values finally speaks up.”
    Paul, I don’t give a $hit about family values. Folks are responsible for their own actions, not those of the people they are unfortunate enough to find themselves related to. Find your strawman somewhere else.

    Re: Police Chief John Timoney's Son Arrested (none / 0) (#17)
    by Patrick on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:43 PM EST
    At age 25 it's personal values. Perhaps his father was a bad role model, but that's a tired old meme.

    Police Chief John Timoney's Son Arrested | 17 comments (17 topical)