{"id":1040,"date":"2006-05-15T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2006-05-15T11:27:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-15T17:27:00","slug":"romonce-taylor-busted-for-possession-of-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/romonce-taylor-busted-for-possession-of-weed\/","title":{"rendered":"Romonce Taylor busted for possession of weed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5524\/1070\/1600\/IMG_1926.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5524\/1070\/320\/IMG_1926.0.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFormer Belton RB Romonce Taylor was busted over the weekend in Bell County for possession of nearly five pounds of weed.<br \/>\nAccording to the AP, he&#8217;s sitting in Bell County jail, awaiting araignment.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bell County prosecutors charged the 20-year-old Taylor with state jail felony drug possession of marijuana, pending lab results to determine the total weight of the drug, the sheriff&#8217;s office said.<br \/>\nIf it weighs more than five pounds, the charge will be upgraded to a second-degree felony punishable by two to 20 years in jail and $10,000 in fines. A state jail felony carries up to two years in jail and a $10,000 fine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The sad thing is, if convicted, this would likely ruin any and all chances for Taylor to go pro &#8211; which I believe is likely talent wise.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Taylor had been excused from spring practice in March to focus on academics and had not participated in any team functions since, Longhorns coach Mack Brown said.<br \/>\nAccording to the arrest report, deputies responded to a report of a large fight involving as many as 100 people at a pecan farm in Little River <em>(just east of Belton)<\/em>, a community about 40 miles from Austin. Deputies also said they received a call from someone who had been at the fight and complained that a window on his vehicle had been broken. That caller turned out to be Taylor.<br \/>\nOne of Texas&#8217; most versatile players, Taylor scored 15 touchdowns last season, including a 30-yard scoring run in the Rose Bowl, which Texas won 41-38. The win gave Texas its first outright national championship since 1969.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5524\/1070\/1600\/IMG_1982.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5524\/1070\/320\/IMG_1982.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Belton RB Romonce Taylor was busted over the weekend in Bell County for possession of nearly five pounds of weed. According to the AP, he&#8217;s sitting in Bell County jail, awaiting araignment. Bell County prosecutors charged the 20-year-old Taylor with state jail felony drug possession of marijuana, pending lab results to determine the total &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/romonce-taylor-busted-for-possession-of-weed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Romonce Taylor busted for possession of weed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-gM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}