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By MIKE WELLS
The Tampa Tribune
PLANT CITY - Rather than leave their kids with a sitter, a pair of east Hillsborough mothers took three small children on a little shopping trip Wednesday night, a decision that put them behind bars.
Hillsborough County sheriff’s detectives say Susan Machado, 31, of Plant City, and Amanda Bronson, 25, of Dover, drove the children a known drug house where the women planned to buy marijuana.
> Bronson Jail Record
> Machado Jail Record
On Wednesday, Machado and Bronson phoned an undercover detective and made arrangements to buy $70 worth of marijuana from him at 7322 Knights Griffin Road, according to arrest reports.
The women arrived at 7:20 p.m. with Machado’s two children and Bronson’s 2-year-old son in the car.
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Machado reportedly told detectives that she “only occasionally” takes her children with her when she buys marijuana.
Detectives charged the with felony child neglect. Bronson and Machado posted $7,500 and $15,000 bonds respectively on Thursday morning and were released from Orient Road Jail.
I think marijuana should be legalized. These girls are not crimianls or bad moms just because they use marijuana! This is a waist of txpayer money and putting these young mothers and their kids through hell.....unjustly!
shameful
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Posted by Sandra Perez, Tampa on 02/22 at 04:12 PM
can we say “SCUM”!?