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400 pounds! Must have been getting an early start on Una-F'ing-Dilla! What a shame it came to this - Giove was an innovator for women's MTB and did some moto and GNCC racing for a while as well.
Ex-mountain bike champ Giove hit with drug charge
WILTON, N.Y. — Former mountain biking world champion Melissa "Missy" Giove was in custody Thursday on federal drug charges after authorities said they seized more than 200 pounds of marijuana from a truck she was driving in upstate New York.
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials said Wednesday that the 37-year-old Giove, of Chesapeake, Va., and 30-year-old Eric Canori of Wilton were charged Tuesday with conspiring to possess and distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana.
Authorities said they seized nearly 400 pounds of pot from the truck and from Canori's home outside Saratoga Springs, 25 miles north of Albany.
Giove and Canori were in the custody of U.S. Marshals pending detention hearings Thursday afternoon in Albany.
DEA spokeswoman Erin Mulvey said authorities learned of Giove and Canori's plans last weekend when Illinois State Police pulled over a woman driving a truck and trailer loaded with about 220 pounds of marijuana. Authorities completed the delivery to the Albany area, where Mulvey said Giove picked up the vehicle and trailer.
Officials said Giove then drove north and followed Canori to his home, where some of the trailer's contents were unloaded.
Giove was later arrested at nearby Saratoga Lake, authorities said. A search of Canori's home turned up more than 150 pounds of pot and more than $1 million in cash stashed in a closet and the basement, the DEA said.
It couldn't be immediately determined Thursday morning if Giove and Canori had lawyers.
Giove, nicknamed "The Missile" for her aggressive riding style, was the downhill world champion in 1994 and won World Cup season titles in '97 and '98, then captured national titles from 1999-2001. One of the sport's first mainstream female stars, she retired from downhill racing in 2003.
Ex-mountain bike champ Giove hit with drug charge
WILTON, N.Y. — Former mountain biking world champion Melissa "Missy" Giove was in custody Thursday on federal drug charges after authorities said they seized more than 200 pounds of marijuana from a truck she was driving in upstate New York.
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials said Wednesday that the 37-year-old Giove, of Chesapeake, Va., and 30-year-old Eric Canori of Wilton were charged Tuesday with conspiring to possess and distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana.
Authorities said they seized nearly 400 pounds of pot from the truck and from Canori's home outside Saratoga Springs, 25 miles north of Albany.
Giove and Canori were in the custody of U.S. Marshals pending detention hearings Thursday afternoon in Albany.
DEA spokeswoman Erin Mulvey said authorities learned of Giove and Canori's plans last weekend when Illinois State Police pulled over a woman driving a truck and trailer loaded with about 220 pounds of marijuana. Authorities completed the delivery to the Albany area, where Mulvey said Giove picked up the vehicle and trailer.
Officials said Giove then drove north and followed Canori to his home, where some of the trailer's contents were unloaded.
Giove was later arrested at nearby Saratoga Lake, authorities said. A search of Canori's home turned up more than 150 pounds of pot and more than $1 million in cash stashed in a closet and the basement, the DEA said.
It couldn't be immediately determined Thursday morning if Giove and Canori had lawyers.
Giove, nicknamed "The Missile" for her aggressive riding style, was the downhill world champion in 1994 and won World Cup season titles in '97 and '98, then captured national titles from 1999-2001. One of the sport's first mainstream female stars, she retired from downhill racing in 2003.
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sad thing is she will see more jail time than the NFL player who killed a guy drunk driving and paid the family off.
Couldn't resist.
She rode WFO without regard for herself. I think the crashes finally caught up with her. She stopped by our table at breakfast one year at Mammoth ( at the Stove naturally
Sorry to see it comes to this.
1) I bet they were just heavy users and it was all for personal consumption.
2) How smart was that to have all the cash there? Makes the argument that drugs do make you stupid.
Pit Row
WOW this system is messed up.
VICTORY FOR THE COMMON man.
"Not one to mince words or to be politically correct, Missy raced with her shorts down to the amusement of many...The last of the great punk rock racers. "
"Monkey" was always there faithfully spinning the wrenches.
Some fear over Mexicans stickin around in the tough financial times, has really destroyed lives, and cost us Billions of dollars. Pretty funny/sad really.
What, and how long will it take, for this whole situation to be corrected?
Hell, I don't use it, but I can't believe we are still thinking so backwards in this day and age.
LOL
Another life ruined because of some bullshit law.
Just a dork looking for attention.
The only problume I have with people who sell pot is they dont have to pay taxes like the rest of us. Should they be LOCKED up in a box with bars that I as a tax payer must pay for.........Ummmmmm no
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