When a waitress discovered that the two diners she had served left her an envelope containing 17 grams of meth as a tip, she told the manager to call the police. When the cops showed up, the brain addled pair were still sitting at the table where they had dined.
OREGON DINERS LEAVE ENVELOPE FULL OF METHAMPHETAMINE AS TIP
Ryan Bensen and Erica Manley left a gift card and an envelope containing 17 grams of methamphetamine to cover their tab and the tip for their cocktail waitress at the Twisted Fish in Seaside, Ore., police say
By Sasha Goldstein
New York Daily News
January 7, 2014
Two Oregon diners were cuffed on drug charges after they left a waitress an envelope full of methamphetamine as a tip.
Ryan Bensen, 40, of Beaverton, and Erica Manley, 37, of Cascade Locks, were having drinks early Friday morning at the Twisted Fish in Seaside when they left a gift card to cover the tab — and 17 grams of meth as gratuity.
The shocked waitress called police about 1 a.m. when she found the white crystalline powder, Seaside Police Chief Robert Gross told the Daily News.
“I think the waitress was stunned and probably offended that somebody would think she was a user of a methamphetamine,” Gross said.
Responding officers recognized the drug as meth and placed both patrons under arrest, Gross said. A subsequent search of Manley’s purse uncovered even more of the drug.
Cops searched the couple’s car and motel room and found more meth and items used to make the highly addictive drug.
Both were booked on charges of possession of methamphetamine and manufacture of methamphetamine, while Manley faces an additional charge of delivery of methamphetamine.
They’re both being held at the Clatsop County Jail awaiting arraignment.
Gross praised the waitress for “making the call to police and saying ‘no’ to more methamphetamine in our community.”
“It speaks volumes of the business community doing their part” to stop the drug’s spread in the small town, about 80 miles from Portland, Gross said.
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