What do you think about the additional facts that were just released about Jeff Hardy’s 2009 Arrest?
Posted: December 30th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Q & A | Tags: 2009, about, additional, Arrest, Facts, Hardy's, Jeff, just, released, think, were | 3 Comments »When Jeff Hardy’s jail & probation sentencing was handed down Thursday in North Carolina court, more details came out about Jeff Hardy’s actual arrest in September 2009 that led to a two-year legal process. Reported from the Fayetteville Observer newspaper:
– Assistant District Attorney Warren McSweeney said the raid on Hardy’s North Carolina home came after employees at a Fayetteville, N.C. FedEx distribution center called police about a suspicious package.
The package was addressed to Hardy from a fan in Florida. It contained a Maxwell House coffee can filled with 262 prescription hydrocodone pain killers.
Police resealed the package and allowed the pills to be delivered to Hardy’s home. When Hardy accepted the package, Moore County sheriff’s deputies raided the house and found other drugs, as well.
– Hardy’s attorney, James Van Camp, said Hardy “got involved” with pills to cope with “pain and damage to his body” that he endured as a professional wrestler.
At the time of his arrest on September 11, 2009, Hardy had just completed a run in WWE. His final date with WWE was August 25, 2009 after being full-time in WWE for several months.
Thats interesting, shouldn’t the fan in Florida who sent the package be convicted too?
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People get packages via the mail, UPS, FedEx, etc regularly. Those packages come in all sizes and shapes (especially via UPS and FedEx). I believe those “FedEx employees” singled out that particular package because of who it was addressed to. Jeff Hardy’s reputation is far-reaching.
But Hardy could truthfully claim to have had no prior knowledge of what that package might contain before he got it. He’s a celebrity and celebrities get gifts/things in the mail and via delivery companies from fans all the time. Jeff is also known as an artist. For all he knew that package might have contained a small sculpture, a gift/tribute from a fan.
That the police opened it, learned its contents, resealed it, and allowed it to be delivered anyway throws a lot of suspicion on the police. Why did they not track the package back to the sender and arrest HIM/HER as a “supplier” or “pusher”? Did the police arrange this delivery as “entrapment”? When did the police “raid Jeff’s house”? Immediately after delivery as Jeff was opening it? Or later after Jeff had had a chance to hide the contents rather than dispose of it?
I know Jeff’s reputation as well as the next wrestling fan. I know of his drug issues and legal problems, too. He’s also used up his last “second chance” with me. But this “suspicious package” delivery is way too flimsy a reason to “raid his house”. With the police having prior knowledge of the contents of the package (and it can’t be proven, unless Jeff admitted it, that Jeff DID) AND allowed it to be sent anyway, this sounds too much like the plot of a bad TV movie of the week where the criminal is way too smart for the police and the only way the police can bust him is to pull off something like that to entrap him.
If the police found other illegal drugs in Hardy’s house, fine, bust him for that. But the “suspicious package” sounds to me like entrapment and that’s illegal. Perhaps the judge felt the same and this would explain Jeff’s punishment being VERY light given the charges against him (I heard 10 days in jail and 2-3 years of probation). If it had been you or me busted for what Jeff got arrested for, we’d be spending several months to a few years in jail.