Gilligan's Island Star: The pot wasn't mine!
Posted by Alexandra Manzano, The Oregonian March 21, 2008 13:55PM
"Mary Ann" of Gilligan's Island says the pot wasn't hers
Former Gillian's Island star Dawn Wells - who was arrested last October after police found half-smoked joints on her - says the pot wasn't hers.
In an interview with Fox News Friday, Wells, 69 - who played "Mary Ann" on the hit 1960s show - said she was driving home from a party in a company vehicle when she couldn't get the heater to work.
"I couldn't find the controls, and I was weaving, and what a mistake," she said.
Wells said police then pulled her over, and she confessed she had downed two cocktails.
The officer did "some kind of test with me," Wells said, but "didn't give me a breathalyzer, and then he asked me if he could search the car, and I said 'Sure, go ahead.'"
The officer "discovered marijuana," Wells said. "I didn't know it was there. I would never have said 'go ahead and search the car.'¤"
Wells' lawyer said that within a few days, they learned the drugs belonged to a man who had the car before her. He came forward and identified himself and agreed to take responsibility.
Wells was given a standard sentence for reckless driving and was sentenced to 5 days in jail and 6 months' unsupervised probation.The plea was an agreement with prosecutors in which the 3 misdemeanor counts - driving under the influence, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance - were dropped, according to the Associated Press.
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