Montgomery Teen Charged With Smoking Pot Outside Police Chief's Naperville Home
Maximilian G. Salling, 18, of Montgomery, is accused of smoking marijuana in his car outside the Villa Park police chief's Naperville home last month.
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In an incident worthy of late night TV talk show material, officials say a Montgomery teen was arrested last month in connection with smoking pot in front of a local police chief's Naperville home.
Maximilian Gryphon Salling, 18, of the 100 block of Hamlet Circle in Montgomery, was arrested Sept. 13 and charged with smoking marijuana in his car with a friend outside Villa Park Police Chief Robert Pavelchik's home in Naperville, according to NBC Chicago.
Pavelchik said he smelled marijuana once he approached the suspicious car, which was parked in front of his house, according to the report.
"I like to say I know most of my neighbors and friends, so I got out of my car with a flashlight in one hand and I said, ‘What are you guys doing?’” Pavelchik recalled, according to NBC Chicago. "They’re blowing dope when I come home from work, right in front of my house. ... I smell the dope and I see the (smoking) pipe and the bag of dope on the floor, what we call in plain view."
The incident was Salling's third arrest for drug charges in seven months, NBC Chicago reported. In late July, he was arrested in Naperville and charged on a failure-to-appear warrant.
Salling is being held in DuPage County Jail on $50,000 bail.
mark
3:14 pm on Wednesday, October 10, 2012
This is why they call it dope
The Sentinel
3:14 pm on Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Guess this kid isn't the brightest bulb in the bunch.
Pro Life Crusader +
3:14 pm on Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Typical dumb ????!
The Sentinel
3:14 pm on Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Obviously not the brightest bulb in the pack.
Barbara Young
6:54 pm on Saturday, October 13, 2012
Why does the Villa Park police chief live in Naperville? Don't cops have to live in their own community?
The Sentinel
8:36 pm on Saturday, October 13, 2012
Nope. In Chciago, yes. Anywhere else it's up to each village.
Ask someone who works for Naperville where Pradel lives.
sa
3:20 pm on Sunday, October 14, 2012
I knew this kid, he isn't a bad kid, and there is a lot about him that random people commenting don't know. Yeah he made some bad decisions, but to be fair, if weed was decriminalized, as it should be, we wouldn't be wasting tax dollars on this kid and his essentially harmless actions.
The Sentinel
3:49 pm on Sunday, October 14, 2012
But it isn't decriminalized, thekid knew it AND he lit up in front of the chief's house. You can argue all you want about making pot legal but the bottom line is that it was still a really stupid thing to do.