A former Tremper High School volleyball standout has been charged in Minnesota with transporting a large amount of marijuana.
Abby Padlock and a friend, Aisha Lyons, both 24 of Kenosha, are each charged with two felony drug charges there. Each count comes with the possibility of a 25-year sentence and up to $500,000 in fines.
Padlock, an all-state volleyball player, led Tremper to the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Division-1 State title in 2008. She went on to play for Missouri State University and the University of Indianapolis.
The two were arrested in Grant County, Minn., on Oct. 27, after someone provided state troopers with a tip that a car they were in — a silver Pontiac Grand Am — was possibly transporting drugs from Portland, Ore., to Kenosha. The criminal complaint filed against the women said the information was reliable, and that they were transporting 40 pounds of “high grade marijuana.”
A trooper began patrolling Interstate 94 near Fergus Falls, Minn., and at 4:40 p.m. saw the vehicle heading east. He noticed the driver’s seatbelt hanging down to the floor, and suspected it was either not in use or being used improperly. That gave him grounds to stop the vehicle.
Lyons was driving, and admitted moving the belt because it was annoying her.
Both said anything in the vehicle belonged to both of them. They said they had been to Oregon, but gave conflicting stories about when they left, where they had been, and what they had done since leaving that state.
Padlock handed over candy and cookies that contained marijuana, and then with Lyons’ consent, the troopers used a trained dog to sniff around the vehicle and then search within it. The dog indicated there were drugs in the vehicle, and troopers found the truck full of black packages in “scent lock bags.”
A total of 76 black packages, each weighing about 1.5 pounds, were in the trunk. The packages were vacuum sealed inside two layers of plastic. Together, the packages weighed 114 pounds.
The troopers also seized three cell phones, $473 in cash and the edible items.
Both women made initial appearances on the charges, and are next due in court in December.
Both girls come from money, and the case against them seems as if they might have had some rights violated based on the stop...hoping they walk because she's cool as hell, bar tends right down the street from me and I was actually about to go ask her out too salty about that sh*t...REALLY hoping they don't jump this sh*t up to federal charges.