Comics Retailer In Alabama Busted For Dealing Pot To Police Informants

According to a local media report, Danny Wayne Barton was arrested last Thursday in the parking lot of a Dollar General store in Carbon Hill, Alabama on charges of selling marijuana to police informants. Barton owns an area comics shop -- named in various reports as "Kryptonite Komix," "Good Karma" and "The Good Karma Store" -- and the series of sales for which he was arrested apparently includes sales in that retail location.

Barton has been charged with four counts of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance within a three-mile radius of a school. (The town has a total area of less than 6 square miles, which indicates to me everything is probably within a three-mile radius of any school.) The store was described in the articles about the arrest as a popular hang-out for kids, although one of the articles suggests that the store also sold head-shop implements. All those pipes made one local records shop growing up a no-go hangout-wise with my Mom, but maybe things are different now.

Additional details provided by a newspaper article include: the fact that the proprietor is being held at the county jail, the store is padlocked, Barton's bond was set at $120K, and that the pot dealing at the store was part of a police investigation even before it became an item on the docket of a City Council meeting in April.

If convicted on current charges, Barton faces a minimum sentence of five years in prison.

None of this is more remarkable to my mind than the fact that this guy was able to operate a comics shop in a town with 2000 people, no matter how the extra money was coming in. Also, there's probably a halfway decent joke to be made here about buying individual joints or waiting for the dime bag, but this poor dope is likely to go to jail so that automatically becomes much less funny.
 
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