caught on wild surveillance video<\/a> waiting to pass through a security checkpoint at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center in Houston Friday morning when a small baggie suddenly fell from his loosely fitted striped pants after he repeatedly shook them.<\/p>\nGerald Earl, 38, was arrested Friday after a small bag of weed allegedly fell out of his pants at a Texas courthouse. X \/ @Pct1Constable<\/p>\n
The buffoon, unaware his alleged stash bag had dropped, kept moving through the security line.<\/p>\n
\u201cDropped your dope \u2013 at the courthouse,\u201d the Harris County Constable\u2019s Office said in a X post Tuesday, along with the 12-second clip.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will catch you. A man was arrested after a baggie fell from his pants at a security checkpoint. Our team screens more than 2 million people annually for contraband such as drugs and weapons at the downtown courthouse complex.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earl was allegedly caught with up to 4 ounces of pot and slapped with misdemeanor marijuana possession, court records show.<\/p>\n
The accused dopehead, who has a lengthy criminal history, was already wanted by police when he was cuffed for allegedly swiping a slew of household items just days earlier, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
Earl was allegedly caught with up to 4 ounces of pot and slapped with misdemeanor marijuana possession, court records show. X \/ @Pct1Constable<\/p>\n
The baggie fell while he was waiting at a security checkpoint at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center. X \/ @Pct1Constable<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said Earl made off with a shaving kit, nine bottles of body wash, two body creams, one box of trash bags, three packs of body wipes, and five sets of silverware on April 10.<\/p>\n
He was charged with misdemeanor theft.<\/p>\n
Police shared the head-shaking footage on social media Tuesday. X \/ @Pct1Constable<\/p>\n
Earl was freed Sunday after posting a $100 bond.<\/p>\n
He is due back in court Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What a dope! Head-shaking footage captured the moment a Texas numbskull allegedly dropped a bag of weed on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1680,3328,27,29,28,5502,734,4501],"class_list":["post-260802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-arrest","tag-marijuana","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-theft","tag-us-news","tag-viral-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}