{"id":4734,"date":"2015-05-29T12:46:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T12:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/02\/07\/mcgruff-the-crime-dog-actor-busted-with-9000-rounds-of-ammo\/"},"modified":"2015-05-29T12:46:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T12:46:52","slug":"mcgruff-the-crime-dog-actor-busted-for-possessing-1000-potplants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/4734","title":{"rendered":"McGruff the Crime Dog actor busted for possessing 1,000 pot&nbsp;plants"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/inthefade\/status\/431935818467246081\n<p>Those who grew up with McGruff the Crime Dog are reexamining the crime-fighting mascot Friday as the actor who once portrayed him is sentenced to 16 years in prison. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/weird-news\/crime-dog-actor-sentenced-pot-weapons-n25016\">NBC News reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<p id=\"ember917\">John Russell Morales, 41, an actor who once played the crime-fighting cartoon bloodhound, has been sentenced to nearly two decades behind bars after pleading guilty to possessing 1,000 marijuana plants and a cache of nearly 30 weapons &mdash; including a grenade launcher and thousands of ammunition rounds.<\/p>\n&nbsp;Morales was arrested in 2011 after Galveston, Texas, police and drug-sniffing dogs &mdash; real dogs, that is &mdash; stopped him for speeding, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Kusin, who later prosecuted the case.\n\n<p>Morales reportedly had a cache of 27 weapons and 9,000 rounds of ammo.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/randrew_Z\/status\/431945872889610240\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/AsheSchow\/status\/431857656513708032\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/RyanJohnsonCO\/status\/431930752511782912\n<p>McGruff the Crime Dog was sentenced for selling pot.\n[sigh]\nMy heroes are always such a letdown.&mdash; Navy Bean (@Navy_Bean_Soup) <a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Navy_Bean_Soup\/status\/431936890250342400'>February 07, 2014<\/a><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/talabi\/status\/431945681797132288\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/jjammerzs\/status\/431942625449766912\n<p>Editor’s note: The headline of the post has been changed to clarify that the actor was busted for pot possession, not ammo possession.<\/p><p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/02\/07\/mcgruff-the-crime-dog-actor-busted-with-9000-rounds-of-ammo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/02\/07\/mcgruff-the-crime-dog-actor-busted-with-9000-rounds-of-ammo\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/inthefade\/status\/431935818467246081 Those who grew up with McGruff the Crime Dog are reexamining the crime-fighting mascot Friday as the actor who once portrayed him is sentenced to 16 years in prison. NBC News reports: John Russell Morales, 41, an actor who once played the crime-fighting cartoon bloodhound, has been sentenced to nearly two decades behind bars &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/4734\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">McGruff the Crime Dog actor busted for possessing 1,000 pot&nbsp;plants<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[781],"tags":[2717,2716,1066,2718,1135],"class_list":["post-4734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-justice","tag-john-russell-morales","tag-mcgruff-the-crime-dog","tag-pets","tag-pot-possession","tag-society-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/14328712153664-mcgruff.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}