Public Safety
UPDATE: Police: Man, 21, Sold Marijuana and Was Arrested in Woodland Park
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A 21-year-old man found with two other people and the odor of burnt marijuana wafting about them, was charged with selling the illegal drug after a police dog indicated there was pot in the man’s car and cops found it, police said. _________
Editor’s note: This article was revised after police answered several questions about details of the incident. _________
Darien police gave this account of the incident, including accusations not proven in court:
On Tuesday, Sept. 5, at 8:23 p.m., an officer on patrol saw a 1992 Nissan Stanza parked in the Woodland Park lot at the Middlesex Road entrance to the park after dusk (the park’s closing time). When the officer spoke with three men sitting on a bench (two of them 21 years old; the other, 19) he smelled burnt marijuana.