Late on a Sunday night after the Buffalo Wild Wings in Lawrence, Indiana had closed, Justin Carpenter arrived at the restaurant seeking a specific late-night snack – fried pickles.
In an ill-advised attempt to persuade the closed kitchen to reopen, the 25-year-old proposed a peculiar barter exchange to Buffalo Wild Wings employees, two of whom were minors.
According to police allegations, Carpenter “offered drugs to Buffalo Wild Wings workers in exchange for fried pickles.”
Wearing an ankle monitor due to a prior drug arrest, Carpenter reportedly offered marijuana, cocaine, Ecstasy, and vape cartridges containing THC to the workers.
Accompanied by a male friend, he declared, “If you make us some fried pickles, I’ll make it worth it.”
However, the employees did not agree to the unconventional trade, leading Carpenter to leave the Buffalo Wild Wings, the Smoking Gun reported.
Before departing, investigators claim that Carpenter left three small bags of marijuana on the restaurant’s front counter, instructing a manager to “Give those bags to the kids.”
Following the incident, police tracked Carpenter’s vehicle to a nearby Speedway gas station, where he was taken into custody.
Subsequent searches of Carpenter and his car uncovered marijuana, cocaine, oxycodone, Xanax, THC cartridges, and scales containing a white powder.
Carpenter, depicted in a photo, was arrested on multiple felony and misdemeanor narcotics charges and booked into the county jail, as reported by the Smoking Gun.
According to court records, he is also a defendant in two separate drug cases filed the previous year, leading to the pretrial service officials fitting him with a GPS ankle monitor.
In the event of Carpenter’s release from custody, a judge has ordered him to refrain from any contact with Buffalo Wild Wings or its employees.
Written by B.C. Begley
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