No, it wasn’t about the cow strangler, but almost as bad. NorthEscambia.com reports both Century and Molino were mentioned on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Thursday night, thanks to a “genius†criminal.
During Leno’s “Police Blotter†segment in which funny newspaper stories about criminals are featured, Leno presented a September 2004 newspaper story about a police chase that ended in Nokomis.
“Another genius…tree cutter faces several charges after leading deputies on chase…a Pensacola tree cutter led deputies…10 mile chase from Molino to near Century…told deputies he was trying to smoke all $500 worth of his crack cocaine before he got pulled over,†Leno said, paraphrasing the article.
“That’s very clever, you want to smoke as much crack…†Leno joked.
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