Actor arrested in DEA sting... entrapment?

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Ok wtf?
http://www.inquisitr.com/105977/former-e-r-actor-sam-jones-wants-reduced-drug-sentence/
Sam Jones, an actor who played a role on the hit TV series ER and also held parts on Smallville and Blue Mountain State is asking a judge to go easy on him for helping a friend sell drugs to pay off a deadly mexican drug cartel.

Jones plead guilty to the attempted sale of more than 10,000 pills of Oxycodone but told the judge that his friend convinced him that if he didn’t pay back $90,000 to a drug cartel in Mexico they would kill him.

Jones later learned that the entire sale was setup by the DEA as part of a sting operation.

The feds want Jones to spend 70 months in prison, however he says it’s an unfair sentencing since he was just trying to save the life of a friend. The drug dealer, Tom Cataloni was a childhood acquaintance.

Jones goes in front of the judge for sentencing on June 22.

So apparently the guy is saying his friend owed the Mexican Cartel money. The DEA posed as the Mexican Cartel and told him to sell these drugs or his friend dies. He goes to do it, DEA arrests him. How is this NOT entrapment? Fucking bullshit and we as Americans should not stand for this kind of crap from our government.
 

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CVSiN

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Um breaking the law is breaking the law.. period.. he did it see ya in jail dumbass..
dont drop the soap..
 

ElFenix

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normally people yell entrapment and i disagree. but this is about the only way entrapment could work. the only thing more the .gov could have done was to show the guy his friend tied up with some hooded guys with guns standing behind him.

edit: wait i may be reading this wrong
 

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Um breaking the law is breaking the law.. period.. he did it see ya in jail dumbass..
dont drop the soap..

So if the cops come up to you dressed as gang bangers, so that you don't know they are cops, and tell you they're going to kill you unless you sell the dude across the street this little baggy of meth. If you do it, you should go to jail? How does that make sense? You would NOT have done it if the cops had NOT threatened to kill you. So the COPS are the ones responsible for you committing the crime, they forced your hand.
 

Gooberlx2

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I don't think there's enough info and, frankly, I'd like to see better sources. All I find can find is garbage like TMZ.

The DEA may not have had anything to do with his 'friend' recruiting him for help.
 

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He's not Lindsey he only had a couple small roles. Sam Jones is going to get raped in prison for sure.D::eek:
There is no doubt in my mind that he will get prison time, like so many other young black man. American justice is not color blind
 

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So if the cops come up to you dressed as gang bangers, so that you don't know they are cops, and tell you they're going to kill you unless you sell the dude across the street this little baggy of meth. If you do it, you should go to jail? How does that make sense? You would NOT have done it if the cops had NOT threatened to kill you. So the COPS are the ones responsible for you committing the crime, they forced your hand.

then they kill me.. flat out.. period.. sorry I dotn break the law.. (except maybe a little speeding ok maybe alot of speeding..)
but that's not what happened here his life was not in danger.. he coulda gone to Law Enforcement himself.
and he didn't.
he took the law into his own hands.

dumb fucker..
 

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then they kill me.. flat out.. period.. sorry I dotn break the law.. (except maybe a little speeding ok maybe alot of speeding..)
but that's not what happened here his life was not in danger.. he coulda gone to Law Enforcement himself.
and he didn't.
he took the law into his own hands.

dumb fucker..

so... you have no issue with law enforcement breaking the law to enforce it? that doesn't make any sense.
 

herm0016

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pretty sure they wer going to kill the dealer and not the actor friend. it seems as though it was not the first time that the dealer guy was involved with similar activity and was being watched/setup and the actor was involved after the initial setup. not entrapment.

The law has been held up many times when police put an Escalade on a city street with the keys in it and someone comes along and steals it.
 

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pretty sure they wer going to kill the dealer and not the actor friend. it seems as though it was not the first time that the dealer guy was involved with similar activity and was being watched/setup and the actor was involved after the initial setup. not entrapment.

The law has been held up many times when police put an Escalade on a city street with the keys in it and someone comes along and steals it.

the way i understand it they were threatening to kill the friend of the actor. the story is really badly written, so who knows.
 

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pretty sure they wer going to kill the dealer and not the actor friend. it seems as though it was not the first time that the dealer guy was involved with similar activity and was being watched/setup and the actor was involved after the initial setup. not entrapment.

The law has been held up many times when police put an Escalade on a city street with the keys in it and someone comes along and steals it.

See that doesn't make sense to me at all. The entire purpose of putting the Escalade out there is for it to be stolen. They don't put it there just to leave it there, they put it there to have someone steal it. If the Escalade was never put there in the first place, the police would not have to apprehend a thief. That sounds like entrapment to me.
 

erikistired

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it's not entrapment. the DEA were after the dealer, not the actor. the dealer lied to the actor to get help moving pills, then gets himself and the actor popped for trying to sell drugs. sounds like the dealer was trying to exploit his "friend's" hollywood connections.
 

herm0016

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See that doesn't make sense to me at all. The entire purpose of putting the Escalade out there is for it to be stolen. They don't put it there just to leave it there, they put it there to have someone steal it. If the Escalade was never put there in the first place, the police would not have to apprehend a thief. That sounds like entrapment to me.

if the truck was just there, then they would steal it anyway. no one is being forced in any way. I am sure if one of the people had, instead of jumping in and driving away, called the police to report the vehicle or walked away that nothing would happen to them. now if the truck had, in big letters, STEAL ME! on the side, i would argue differently.
 

rasczak

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wtf is the big deal? dude sold drugs, got caught and now doesn't want to do the time. he should have gone to the police instead.
 

GundamW

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Wait.
Doesn't Clark usually show up at the last minute to save the day?
I don't know. The whole thing smells like what Lex would do...
 
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How the hell is leaving a truck with the keys in it even remotely the same scenario as the OP? Nobody is forcing you to steal the truck. Some of you are either retarded or just trolling. (edit) Or just being sarcastic.
 

erikistired

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How the hell is leaving a truck with the keys in it even remotely the same scenario as the OP? Nobody is forcing you to steal the truck. Some of you are either retarded or just trolling. (edit) Or just being sarcastic.

nobody forces you to sell drugs either.
 

Eos

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Isn't entrapment when a person does something they would not normally do except that the LEO placed them in the situation?