Michael Lapihuska, a man arrested in Anniston for having a legal prescription of marijuana he brought from his home in California, signed a plea agreement Monday for two years unsupervised probation, which will allow him to finally return home. "I really don't even feel like it's over yet," Lapihuska said Monday from where he has been staying in Talladega County. "I don't - maybe after I get back to California." Lapihuska, a former Anniston resident, was arrested in December 2009 on possession of marijuana charges, after being detained by a police officer for allegedly hitchhiking on McClellan Boulevard near Walmart. Since then, he has been in Alabama waiting for his case to go to trial. [continues 293 words]
Michael Lapihuska, a former Anniston resident, is facing a jail sentence and two years probation for bringing his prescription with him from California to Alabama when he came home for the holidays last December. The problem -- his prescription was for marijuana. Lapihuska was arrested Dec. 15, when a police officer stopped him on McClellan Boulevard near Walmart for hitch hiking. The officer searched him, found a prescription bottle of marijuana in his pocket and asked Lapihuska to take it out. When Lapihuska complied, he was arrested for possession despite the doctor's recommendation he presented to the officer. [continues 846 words]
