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"You've gotta applaud the man's business ambition," says a Reddit comment about a west-side Detroiter accused of selling marijuana and pills from a vending machine on the side of his home.
WDIV has the offbeat tale Tuesday:
Officials said they found 18 guns at the home of a Detroit man who was making $2,000 per day by running a marijuana vending machine outside the house. ...
[Federal] agents conducted surveillance at [Marcellus] Cornwell's home and twice purchased suspected marijuana from the vending machine in February and March, the criminal complaint says.
Specifically, agents said they purchased 5.28 grams of suspected marijuana from the vending machine on Feb. 18 and 4.1 grams on March 1.
Not the actual pot and pills dispenser -- just a whimsical concept from our imagination and a stock image. (Photo: DepositPhotos)
Cornwell, 43, lives at 15220 Mettetal St., just south of Fenkell Avenue in the Grand River-St. Mary's neighborhood.
In a March 16 search, according to an April 26 criminal complaint, agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives found 18 firearms, dozens of rounds of ammunition and several kilograms of suspected marijuana in the two-story brick house.
Cornwell told officials that there was about $7,000 cash in the safe in his bedroom, which he unlocked for ATF agents with his fingerprint, officials said. ... About $5,700 was found in a bag in the dining room, court records show.
Cornwell told officials multiple times that he makes the majority of his money from the marijuana vending machine, they said. ...
He has a criminal history that includes convictions in 1997 for armed robbery and felony firearm, in 2008 for carrying a concealed weapon, in 2009 for felon in possession of a firearm and felony firearm, and in 2011 for three counts of identity theft, according to court records.
Officials said Cornwell was sentenced to more than one year in prison for each of those convictions. ...
The criminal complaint concludes that there’s probable cause to charge Cornwell with felon in possession of a firearm.
