: MISSION, Texas (AP) -- Police say the jingle of this ice cream truck meant pot-sickles. Police say elementary school students tipped them off to an ice cream truck driver who was apparently selling $5 and $10 bags of marijuana from the truck. Most customers were in the third, fourth, and fifth grades.
"It's a scary thought, but that's the info we received," Mission police Chief Leo Longoria said.
Raymundo Flores, a 40-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico, was arrested Thursday on charges of possession of marijuana. He was transported to Hidalgo County jail after a judge set bond at $30,000. His case will likely be turned over to federal immigration officials, Assistant Police Chief Robert Dominguez said.
While police didn't witness any sales, a drug sniffing dog did help them find packets of marijuana alongside the more traditional frozen treats.
News video showed the driver may have been doing some subtle advertising. While the outside of the truck was festooned with pictures of ice cream, pendants in the shape of marijuana leaves dangled inside the truck.
SOME OF YOU PEOPLE ARE SO IGNORANT WHEN IT COMES TO SH!T LIKE THIS!!! HOW COULD YOU THINK ITS OK FOR SOME ONE TO DO THIS??? THE STUPID THING IS HE IS AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT AN HE WAS SELLING THE SH1T TO KIDS LIKE HE WASNT GONNA GET CAUGHT.... I DONT HAVE KIDS BUT I WOULD BE P!SSED IF I DID AND I FOUND OUT THAT SH!T WAS HAPPENING.... U CANT EVEN BLAME IT ON THE GHETTO THOUGH CAUSE WE ALL KNOW THAT SH!T IS GOING ON IN THE BURBS TOO BUT ITS MUCH HEAVIER.... ITS RIDICULOUS HIS A$$ NEEDS TO BE DEPORTED FCKN ILLEGAL ALIEN.....
This is not uncommon in Texas. I've lived allover Texas and this happens almost every where. In Houston mostly on the south side you do not have to go to the corner store because it comes to you. The ice cream truck sells ice cream (even blue bell in the pints), frito pies, condoms, ciggs, drugs and what ever else you want. The only thing I have not seen is alcohol (the drinking kind cause the do have the rubbing kind).
