GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – A Green Bay man is due in court later this week accused of dealing marijuana.
21-year-old Michael A. Jorgenson is facing five charges, including manufacturing/delivery THC, possession with intent to deliver THC and felony bail jumping.
Back on April 18, 2014, Green Bay police conducted a traffic stop in an alley near James Street for an occupied vehicle witnesses say had been sitting there for about 20 minutes.
According to the criminal complaint, officers talked with the driver and one of the passengers who claimed they were just hanging out and were there to drop off someone. The person they were allegedly dropping off was identified as Jorgenson.
Officers smelled burnt marijuana coming from inside the vehicle. They initially asked if there was anything illegal in the vehicle, and the driver said no. One of the cops then said they could smell pot in the vehicle. The driver replied they, “Had smoked a blunt, but it was all gone.”
The people inside also said that’s why they were all hanging out, “To pool the last of their weed to smoke.”
The cops searched the vehicle and located a small clear plastic bag of green leafy material suspected to be marijuana and a small glass pipe with green leafy material in the end of it. They also found a PlayStation controller charger box, which was full of pot.
The box belonged to Jorgenson, along with a backpack. Inside the backpack was a small digital scale, a glass pipe and a blunt wrapper with suspected marijuana in it. Also found was a rolled up blunt wrapper with green leafy material inside.
Agents with the Brown County Drug Task Force were called in, and per the complaint, removed a cellophane wrapper with 6.06 grams of marijuana and a clear and brown glass pipe. The rolled and partially burnt marijuana blunt had 2.09 grams of pot. The PlayStation 4 charging station box had a clear Ziploc sandwich bag containing about 42.96 grams of marijuana.
During an interview, Jorgenson said he was called shortly after waking up that morning by a friend of his looking for some marijuana for his friends. He told authorities that he was then picked up and taken to his mom’s house. He said he sold a quarter-ounce of marijuana to the group for $100.
Jorgenson said he, “Was helping out his friend because the marijuana holiday of 4/20 was coming up.”
A search of Jorgenson located $100 in two $50 bills in his wallet. He then explained to authorities that they began smoking a blunt while parked there. Jorgenson admitted that the PlayStation 4 controller charger with the 42.96 grams of pot was his and he tried to hide it under the driver-side seat after officers approached the vehicle.
Jorgenson claimed he got the marijuana from, “Some random person walking down the street.”
Then on June 15, 2015, Jorgenson was charged with felony bail jumping in reference to his failure to appear in court for his scheduled final pre-trial hearing for the pot charges.
Last Friday, Jorgenson was jailed and charged with resisting or obstructing an officer.
Jorgenson is due in court Friday for an adjourned initial appearance on all of the above charges.
