On second thought, it might not have been such a good idea to have joked at the Burger King drive-thru about wanting to order some marijuana. A 32-year-old Deltona man learned that lesson Thursday night the hard way, after Volusia County Sheriff’s deputies tracked down Shawn Porter and charged him with possession of a felony amount of marijuana.
The incident started shortly before 10:30 p.m. Thursday night, at the Burger King on Elkcam Boulevard in Deltona. That’s when two men in a white Saturn pulled up to the drive-thru lane. When it came time to give their order, one of the men yelled into the speaker that he wanted a “blunt and some herbs” -- slang terms for marijuana. When they drove up to the window, the cashier said she could smell the scent of marijuana coming from the car. So they jotted down the vehicle’s tag number and description and called it in to the Sheriff’s Office. “It’s not that it’s a major emergency,” the Burger King supervisor told the Sheriff’s Office dispatcher. “It’s more of a nuisance than anything.” The employee went on to tell the dispatcher what had happened, saying the customers were acting inappropriately. “I wanted to report their tag number, because they are smoking drugs in their car.”
A responding deputy ran the tag number, and it came back to a residence on Sky Street in Deltona -- less than two miles from the Burger King. So the deputy headed to the residence and waited. At about 10:39 p.m., the car pulled into the driveway and two men carrying Burger King bags got out. The deputy also could smell the odor of marijuana coming from the car. That’s when Porter admitted smoking marijuana while in the vehicle. A search of the car turned up a marijuana cigarette in the ashtray and two plastic bags with approximately 28 grams of marijuana. After admitting the drugs were his, Porter was arrested, charged with possession of marijuana over 20 grams and transported to the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach. He was being held on $1,000 bond.
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