Text meant for drug dealer sent to sheriff

A Helena Montana teen sent out a text message last week looking to buy marijuana, only instead of texting the drug dealer, he hit a wrong number.
Who received it?
The Lewis and Clark County sheriff.
The text message said: “Hey Dawg, do you have a $20 I can buy right now?”
Sheriff Leo Dutton initially thought someone was playing a joke on him, but quickly realized it was a real request for a drug exchange.
“I’m thinking, ‘Hey this is odd,’ ” Dutton said. “I was looking around to see if there was someone outside my window playing a prank.”
He played along as if it were legitimate. “How much we talking?” Dutton replied to the teen.
The sender said he was close to the dealer’s house, so Dutton got the Missouri River Drug Task Force involved. A detective pretending to be the dealer agreed to meet the sender at a business at the north end of town at 6 p.m. last Wednesday, Dutton said.
Inside the business the detective spotted two male juveniles with an adult male. To ensure it was the right person, the detective called the number three times, Dutton said.
The detective called the teens over and showed them his badge. Dutton said the young boys turned white and their knees began to wobble. The group went outside to discuss the issue further and one of the teens passed out.
“Was it divine intervention or just bad luck?” Dutton said.
The adult male with the group turned out to be the father of one of the teens. He was a big, military-looking guy and he wasn’t happy, Dutton said. The drug detective got both of the teens’ parents involved and decided not to issue any citations.
“When the detective saw there were parents that wanted to be involved he took the right action and I’m really proud of the deputy,” Dutton said. “Trying to buy drugs is a crime, but it’s probably worse that they had to face their parents.”

Intruder in hot tub: 'I just need a hug, and a cup of hot chocolate'

BEAVERTON, Ore. - "Believe it or not, I'm the sheriff of Washington County," the caller said to a 911 operator.
But it wasn't the sheriff; instead, it was Mark Eskelson, a 45-year-old homeless man.

He had climbed over a fence surrounding a hot tub at the Four Seasons Recreation Center in Beaverton early Saturday morning. Eskelson yelled to passersby for help getting out of it, but when no one would respond, he called 911.

The dispatcher asked him if he was sure he didn't need any medical help. Eskelson said he was sure.

"I'm positive. I just need a hug, and a cup of hot chocolate with marshmallows would be nice. But I don't think I need any medical help, no," he said.

Eskelson didn't get a hug; instead, he got arrested for trespassing and misusing the 911 system. However, when police checked his phone, they noticed he never called 911, but rather routed after he called 411.

Police said they found marijuana on him and that he appeared to be on drugs at the time.

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Its So Hot Corn Popping On the Stalk

ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. -- A Hardin County farmer says that some ears among his feed corn rows popped on the stalk in a phenomenon that agricultural experts say is associated with irregular rainfall and high heat.

Star Mills farmer Patrick Preston sent a photo of the burst kernels that look like partially popped popcorn to the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service.

Hardin County Extension agent Doug Shepherd told The News Enterprise he's never seen popped kernels before.

Shepherd said the outer coat of a kernel can explode from heat after the ears are pollinated. Temperatures in corn fields can be 10 degrees higher than in the surrounding area as the plants are producing energy.

Shepherd predicts corn yields will fall below normal this year because of hot weather and spotty rain.