Former Pro Road Cyclist Arrested For Dealing and Trafficking Cocaine Using Mountain Bike
A former pro road cyclist has been arrested in Italy on suspicion of dealing and trafficking cocaine. It is believed he hid the drug in the seat tube of his mountain bike and that he then used the bike to discretely transport it while he was selling, Il Resto Del Carlino reports.
Juan Pablo Valencia Gonzales, who rode for UCI Professional Continental outfit Team Colombia from 2012 to 2015, was arrested outside the house he was staying in earlier this month while leaving with his bike. He was found with 20 grams of cocaine on his person and then a further 40 grams were found in the house along with a cutting agent, precision scales and €4,000 in cash. When the mountain bike was investigated, strong traces of cocaine were found in the seat tube, leading police to suspect he was using that to discreetly transport the drugs.
Suspicions were first raised in Montegranaro, a town of 13,000 residents, when police received reports of a foreigner selling drugs. The newspaper says it proved difficult for Carabinieri to track down Valencia as he was officially residing in Bergamo, on the outskirts of Milan some 500km away, but was staying with different friends in Montegranaro while selling the drugs. The investigation began in January but when an address was confirmed the police put it under surveillance until an arrest could be made.
Gonzales, 31, has ridden one Grand Tour, the Vuelta a Espana in 2015, and won the Mountains classification in the Tour of Turkey in the same year. Under Italy's drug laws he can expect a prison sentence and a fine.
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Weed might not kill you physically but it will kill your motivation and power of rational thought.
I'd rather be dead than brain dead, dumbass.
Really I'm more making the point that it comes from a plant, and cannabis also comes from a plant, but one is gaining mainstream acceptance. For some reason, people think smoking weed, and telling everyone about how they smoke weed every day makes them cool. It's not cool. No cooler than smoking cigarettes, or drinking wine. Constantly making references to weed and 4:20. There was a kind of cool look at me I'm doing something illegal value on it before, but now it's gone since no police force really cares about it anymore.
I'm not saying everyone who smokes weed is an idiot, but it does have a habit of turning people into idiots. It's just not for me. And when I read yet another pro cannabis comment by someone who thinks it makes them look cool, I just yawn. I'm sick of yawning. I'm not even tired. "I got caned last night" is right up there with "I need my coffee" and "I've got itchy balls" in terms of the interest it stimulates. On the cocaine side you have that basketball guy who died when his heart exploded in the middle of a three day cocaine and sex binge in a Nevada whorehouse. Now that's an interesting read. Much more so than "I watched TV last night with a load of blokes, got stoned, talked shit and got the munchies. It was like, so cooooool maaaan!"
On the other hand, weed makes household chores way more tolerable and enhances the dullest of evenings spent pottering, listening to/making music and fiddling with bikes in the garage. Microdosing with a vaper I would say has next to zero negative effects (if you are not predisposed to certain issues) and can stimulate creativity and thought a great deal, as well as warding off depression. Not to mention the medicinal properties. I could go on. Any time we generalize about something (especially with purely anecdotal evidence) we are invariably wrong.
It's just not for me.
In my personal experience, I don't see many positives to come out of weed smoking.
I don't see many positives to come out of cocaine use either, it's just a hell of a lot more fun than weed. For me it is anyway.
Cocaine for a night = you’re killin it bud way to go yeah celebrate your own immortality
Weed = what were we talking about again?/I don’t even remember the last time I got out of the house or even got out of bed.
Have you ever had a serious cocaine bender one night? I’ll show you not getting out of bed or leaving the house. Ohh doctor go do an eight ball in a night and tell me how you didn’t make any dumb decisions and how great you feel the next day.
I’m not saying this like “oh I’m cool look at me”; but I’ve had a couple pretty serious drug problems in my life. Weed has never left me in a gutter without a penny to my name. Just really hungry when I get done with a bike ride.
www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/February-2019/Bicycle-Bank-Robber-Tom-Justice
I fully support the death penalty to all convicted heroin dealers..
Would you be getting on your high horse if he was from a different country?
Allez Rigo!
I fully support the death penalty to all convicted heroin dealers..