VERMONT: THE SCENT OF BAIL MONEY

The police confiscated $50,000 in bail money from a Wallingford couple who
were trying to free their daughter from jail on a marijuana possession
charge, saying that the cash smelled like marijuana and probably came from
sales of the substance. The couple, Arlene and Martin Edward Santor, who
brought the money on Sunday to the Hampshire County Jail in Northampton,
Mass., in $20 bills, said they got it from friends of their daughter,
Nikita Santor, who was arrested after marijuana and $12,000 were found in a
car she was driving. An affidavit said an officer detected a "slight odor
of marijuana" on the bail money and a police dog confirmed it. (AP)