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Theater Owner Busted Selling Popcorn with a Side of Coke

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Every drug dealer we see on TV seems to have their own gimmick.  Breaking Bad’s Walter White had the blue-tinted methamphetamine, for instance.  (His apprentice once put chili powder into his batches for a similarly novel marketing approach).

Others would deliver their wares hidden in buckets of refrigerated food, or even via submarine.

But one dealer in Minnesota had a truly unique approach to being the local cocaine concierge:  She was peddling powder from the behind the counter at the movie theater concession stand.

Jamie Lynn Hiniker, 39, was named yesterday in a criminal complaint charging her with narcotics sales. Hiniker is the general manager of the four-screen Spotlight Theatres in Mankato, a city 80 miles from Minneapolis.

If convicted of the felony drug count, Hiniker faces a maximum 20-year prison term and a fine of up to $250,000.

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Hiniker was a target of a Minnesota River Valley Drug Task Force probe, according to a probable cause affidavit. An investigator reported that he knew “through previous investigations” that Hiniker worked at a movie theater and “the sale of cocaine typically took place behind the theater in an alley or at the theater in a popcorn container with popcorn.”

And if you thought kids on a sugar high could ruin a movie, just waiting until you have a group of geeked-out teens snickering and snorting their way through some jump-scare blockbuster.

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As a lifelong advocate for the dream promised us in the Constitution, Andrew West has spent his years authoring lush prose editorial dirges regarding America's fall from grace and her path back to prosperity. When West isn't railing against the offensive whims of the mainstream media or the ideological cruelty that is so rampant in the US, he spends his time seeking adventurous new food and fermented beverages, with the occasional round of golf peppered in.




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