{"id":217466,"date":"2022-06-15T13:24:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T20:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=217466"},"modified":"2022-06-16T15:54:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T22:54:11","slug":"mohegan-sun-bus-driver-ate-gummies-with-thc-passed-out-on-freeway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/mohegan-sun-bus-driver-ate-gummies-with-thc-passed-out-on-freeway\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohegan Sun Bus Driver Ate Gummies Laced with THC, Passed Out on Freeway"},"content":{"rendered":"

A bus driver was charged with 38 counts of reckless endangerment after passing out on I-95 while ferrying a busload of Boston casino-goers back home from Connecticut\u2019s Mohegan Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Mohegan
Driver Jinhuan Chen said he picked up the cannabis-infused Fruit Chews, p[ictured, not realizing they were laced with THC. English is not his first language. (Image: Respect My Region<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>The driver allegedly also polished off a whole bag of \u201cSmokies Edibles Cannabis-Infused Fruit Chews\u201d before passing out behind the wheel, according to court documents.<\/p>\n

But the driver, identified as Jinhuan Chen, an employee of casino shuttle service Go Go Sun Tour, told a Boston courtroom Tuesday that he had no idea that the candy was loaded with THC, the active ingredient in cannabis<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know it was marijuana,\u201d Jinhuan Chen said through a Chinese interpreter, as reported by The Connecticut Post<\/em>. \u201cI didn\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Sweet Tooth\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n

A trooper was dispatched to the southbound carriage of the freeway, near Exit 30 in Stratford, at around 3 pm on March 13. He was responding to reports of a coach crash, according to Connecticut police,<\/p>\n

The trooper found Chen slumped unconscious in the driver\u2019s seat with his bag of Smokies Edibles. He was taken to Bridgeport Hospital, where he was found to have high levels of THC in his bloodstream.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe driver didn\u2019t know there was marijuana in the candy,\u201d Victor Chen, the manager of Go Go Sun Tour, told the Post.<\/em><\/p>\n

He doesn\u2019t drink, he doesn\u2019t smoke, but he has a sweet tooth and likes candy,\u201d Chen said of his employee. \u201cHe picked up a bag of candy at a local market here and didn\u2019t know it had marijuana in it,\u201d he continued. \u201cThis would never have happened a couple of years ago, but now there\u2019s marijuana everywhere here.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jinhuan Chen had been driving for Go Go Sun for ten years, with an exemplary record, his employer said.<\/p>\n

But prosecutors told Superior Court Judge Ndidi Moses that Chen was lucky no one was injured in the crash and urged her to set a high bond. Judge Moses ordered a $25,000 bond and adjourned the case until August 25.<\/p>\n

World Wide Tours Bus Crash<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Chen was indeed lucky. In March 2011, 15 people died, and a dozen more were injured when a World Wide Tours bus returning from Mohegan Sun crashed on the outskirts of New York City.<\/p>\n

\n

The bus swerved and collided with a metal sign pole, which ripped through the vehicle, tearing off its roof. Some surviving passengers have said that the driver, Ophadell Williams, fell asleep at the wheel. Williams denied this, claiming he had lost control while trying to avoid a swerving tractor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The driver was prosecuted on charges of criminally negligent homicide and manslaughter and was ultimately cleared by a jury in December 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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