Update: 17-year-old Tyler Pagenstecher, the high-school drug czar, as he’s come to be known, was sentenced to six months to three years in juvi Monday on charges stemming from his $20,000-a-month pot operation. The judge sent him to prison, but remarked that he’s “a pretty fine young person that went down a bad trail.”
Pagenstecher spoke at the sentencing hearing, acknowledging that the stakes might have been higher than he thought. And his mom, well, she said what moms say. Via the AP:
“I understood that I would get in trouble but not to the level or extent this has become, and I sincerely regret all of this,” said the pale, bespectacled, soft-spoken teen. “If I could take it all back, I would.”
His mother, Daffney Pagenstecher, also spoke to the judge, saying her son “just thought he was using a recreational drug and selling it to his friends, and that was it.”
“He wasn’t out to become, you know, a big drug dealer,” she said. “He didn’t buy a new car. He didn’t buy fancy clothes. He wasn’t making the money that a drug dealer would make and flaunting it.”
See, it’s OK, because he wasn’t flaunting it. — Grzegorek
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Ever been to Mason, just north of Cincinnati? It’s one of those suburban no-places sitting off the interstate — housing divisions, chain restaurants, gas stations, repeat. And evidently pretty good turf for a precocious youngster to make his way in the drug slinging game.
This article appears in Oct 17-23, 2012.
What they meant was, ‘they only FOUND $6,000’….you can guarantee he had more than that if he was running the $3million operation.
Ahahahaaaaaa!!!!!
“Can I take my bong with me?”
Aaaaahhhh, that’s just my recreational stash. You know how much of this stuff you have to smoke without lacing it??? HUH???
He’ll go to a juvenile detention center for one year, then be released with a clean record and tons of cash in his pockets. Seems like a pretty smart kid to me. A lawbreaker, yes, but a smart kid nonetheless.
Piece of garbage. Send him off to prison. You want to earn a living like that, you pay the price. He sure wasn’t complaining when he was raking in $20,000 each month.
Wow, a middle class white kid gets busted for selling drugs and is sent to prison. This is new!
He heads a $3 million drug operation, brings in $20,000 per month, and all he gets for that is 6 months to three years in juvi. Read my comment I wrote back in July, I called it back then!
And valuable experience running a business!!!!
Better keep an eye on this kid!!!! Next Gates or Rockefeller?
He wants to be involved in drugs so bad, let him hang out in Mexico for a week. We’ll see how many days he makes it.