Robert Harrell Bass Jr., Former NCSU Student, Says He Made $250,000 Selling Marijuana

Former North Carolina State University student Robert Harrell Bass Jr. was charged with drug trafficking upon revealing to an Oklahoma state trooper that he had made more than $250,000 selling marijuana on campus in the past year, reports the News & Observer. The officer also discovered 26 pounds of weed in the young man's rented minivan.

On Jan. 8, Bass was stopped by the trooper while transporting $70,000 worth of pot purchased in California to Raleigh, North Carolina. Bass told the trooper that he had wired money to the marijuana growers before flying west with a friend who rented the van for him. When the official told Bass that he was facing a drug trafficking charge and set his bail at approximately $25,000, Bass replied that he had the money, in cash, back at his house in Raleigh. Bass then told the officer that he had made a quarter of a million dollars off of drug sales to NCSU students.

The trooper contacted police in Raleigh, who then searched Bass' residence and car and found $26,123.00 in cash, close to 60 grams of marijuana and other drug paraphernalia. Police confiscated these along with a desktop computer, notebooks and bank bags.

At this point, Raleigh officials are still waiting for Bass to be extradited from the Sequoyah County Sheriff's Office in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, where WRAL News reports he is still being held.

NCSU spokesman Keith Nichols told the News & Observer that Bass was not enrolled at the university for the spring semester, and so the school will not be taking disciplinary action against him.

Bass' neighbors told ABC Local News that they were not surprised by how lucrative the operation was. Check out ABC's coverage below:

What do you think of this case? Tell us in the comments section.

Comments

[arthurb3]

09:47 AM on 02/16/2011

This is old news. Pot is very big now. Anyone under 40 is aware of this. Its more common then cigarettes, expecially on high school and college campuses.

[Bj Goode]

06:40 PM on 02/05/2011

eff tha drug war

[TracyLee]

04:40 PM on 02/03/2011

Can't believe cigarettes are still being sold to the public.

Alcohol is here to stay. More families will fall apart because of alcoholism.

Now pot for instance, makes everyone happy. Legalize it.

[pierre F Lherisson]

08:08 PM on 01/31/2011

Where are the campus security polices and detectives? If someone is selling a product, he must have many buyers to stay in business. If he has many buyers then the police will know about his transaction. Thus, how come he was not apprehended before he made his fist one thousand dollar sale?

[GraphicMatt]

10:28 AM on 02/01/2011

Why would the police know just because he had many buyers? Your logic makes no sense at all.

[thegreyarea]

06:32 PM on 01/31/2011

Making 250k a year, yet doing his own cross-country hauls (with felony weight) instead of hiring runners...

Freely disclosing the details of his criminal enterprise immediately upon arrest and without consulting an attorney...

And look at that mugshot! I mean, just look at it!

This might be the dumbest drug dealer in the long and storied history of illegal drugs.

[DL3]

07:42 AM on 01/31/2011

LOL... Looks like his neighbors need to find a new dealer.

[mcmutter]

07:33 PM on 01/30/2011

and all this time I thought evertybody in NC was a holy roller ....

where's all that homegrown GOP personal responsibility ....

[GraphicMatt]

10:34 AM on 02/01/2011

Why would you think that? Asheville is, and has been since the 40's a mecca for the arts filled with tons of liberal minded people. The Research Triangle, last time I checked, had nothing to do with biblical research. Maybe you should open your mind a little before pre-judging an entire state.

[arthurb3]

09:51 AM on 02/16/2011

The Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Durham area is hot bed for pharmaceutical companies and international employees. A large number of people are comming and going and so does an international trade in lots of "products".

[DanSc]

05:50 PM on 01/30/2011

Weed; brought to you by murderous gangs and moonshiners

[inkhosi]

11:12 AM on 01/30/2011

I'm sorry if I'm going out on a limb or if my views make me seem less than liberal but I am completely opposed to the legalization of marijuana. One-hundred percent. And yeah, I did it occasionally for about two years as a teenager so I have "experienced" it.

Don't sell the alcohol and cigarettes stuff to me. I know, they're harmful, they're bad, they're injurious. I still don't want legalized marijuana.

The guy broke the law. Stop crying, "legalize it" when he is acting illegally. You want legalized marijuana? First step is to stop smoking it and dealing it when it's not. Lobby for it's legality and THEN once that bill is miraculously signed into law smoke away. But the law is the law.

[Kevin Wheeler]

05:27 PM on 01/30/2011

laws aren't always just

[Montana Biotech]

09:38 AM on 01/30/2011

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[montanbud]

11:55 AM on 02/14/2011

Yea...I am a provider in Montana..your selling a product that really no one wants...the industry bloswemed w/out you guys and continues strong today w/out you guys...go sell your BS somewhere else....

[Roger Lakins]

08:41 PM on 01/29/2011

Selling cannabis! Tisk, tisk! It should have been made legal years ago. There is a huge line of separation between it and "hard" and "addictive" drugs. It certainly looks like this young man was less than prudent in admitting all of his business details to the police without consultation of an attorney. That was pretty stupid. Making a quarter of a million dollars in the past year in this economy? That should qualify him to teach on the business faculty of any college in the country he chooses. Were cannabis legal and regulated, how much tax would have been made from this one entrepreneur alone?

[WeCanDoMore]

12:46 PM on 01/30/2011

f and f. The fact that it is not legalized at present is just another feather in the dunce cap of the USA.

[olddognewtrick]

08:10 PM on 01/29/2011

Dumb Da Dumb Dumb! Dumb!

[DuffyShort]

04:18 PM on 01/29/2011

Don't worry the IRS doen't pay any attention to stupid dopers on the internet.....Wrong...

[Tara Hunkoff]

12:57 PM on 01/29/2011

He should have hired a lawyer, an operations/distribution manager and some runners with some of that $250,000.

Some people just have no head for business, you know?

[CPAwADD]

11:02 PM on 01/29/2011

A lawyer who was also a CPA would be smart.

[fumes]

04:13 AM on 01/29/2011

a buzz a day..

keeps the doctor away!

[Bali Boy]

05:24 AM on 01/29/2011

But doesn't keep municipal, county, state and federal authorities away.

Oh well.