Country Music writer in jail,PRNY gun charge

[gunsmith]

L.I. GUN RAP FOR TUNESMITH
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/15489.htm
January 12, 2004 -- Award-winning country music songwriter Hugh Prestwood, who scored No. 1 hits for Randy Travis and Trisha Yearwood, was arraigned yesterday on a weapons-possession charge after a loaded gun turned up in his carry-on bag at Long Island's MacArthur Airport.
Suffolk County police said Prestwood, 61, was being held in lieu of bail at the Suffolk County jail in Riverhead. "He didn't make bail," police spokesman Officer Bob McLaren said.

Prestwood, a resident of Greenport on Long Island's North Fork, was heading for Nashville on Friday when the gun, a .38-caliber revolver, was allegedly discovered during the baggage-screening process at the airport, police said.

The songwriter and singer was charged with one count of possessing a weapon, as well as two counts of drug possession relating to two medicines found for which he had no prescription.

 

[Dorian]

 

[Ala Dan]

No Script + Possession + Gun = BIG TROUBLE

Anybody care too post his bond?

Best Wishes,
Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member

 

[gabeodog]

If his girl leavs him w/his dog in his truck, that will be a #1 song

 

[makarov1]

When traveling outside the U.S., it's a good idea not to be packing. By outside the U.S., I'm referring to PDRNY, PRNJ, the PRK, Ill-Annoy, Taxachussets, The People's Democratic Republic of Maryland, and the Distrito Federal. I remember reading a travelers advisory (not from the state dept.) before my first trip abroad in the late 80s. Traveling to foreign countries doesn't just involve dealing with climate changes, different food and culture, the advisory stated that the MINDSET, or the attitudes, assumptions, and points of reference will be different in a foreign country. Some places in the U.S. are not much different than a foreign country, and coming to grips with this could probably save you a lot of grief, frustration, and money.

 

[Wedge]

It is also not a good idea to be carrying in an airport with prescription drugs that you don't have a prescription for.

 

[BerettaNut92]

Let's see:

Guns,
Drugs,
Jail,
The poh-leece,
Stuck in New England trying to go back to Dixie....

Now, if it happened at a train station instead of an airport, I think he'd be on to something

But we're still missing the father-son relationship and the family farm....

 

[BluesBear]

A whole new meaning to "#1 with a Bullet".

 

[OEF_VET]

Skunk,

New York is NOT a part of New England! As a New Englander by birth, I resent your associating that cess pool of liberalism with New England. Granted, I was born in Taxachussetts, ripe with it's own abundance of liberalism. However, we shouldn't have to also take the blame for a group of people who'd elect Billary as their Senator.

Thank you in advance for not making that error again.

Frank (P.S. No disrespect meant towards the Skunk or to any New Yorkers who've seen the light and joined THR.)

 

[ARperson]

The prescription drug arrest bothers me.

Could he not be taking them to somebody who legally had a prescription for them and he was just taking them to him? It's possible.

 

[Double Maduro]

Seems that the weapons charges should be federal. Trying to smuggle a loaded handgun onto an airplane.

DM

 

[RustyHammer]

.... sounds like singers will be lined-up outside his cell for blocks!

(You can bet none of them will be posting bail before he completes the fourth verse.)

 

[Lupine]

what a dips@*t. Poster boy for the Anti-cause.

 

[Gus Dddysgrl]

Ummm duh!!!!!!!! Who would even consider taking a gun to an airport. They won't even let little old ladies have their knitting needles. Come on put brain in gear before putting body in motion.

Y'all forgot to mention that his goldfish has a toothache.

 

[Jonesy9]

by pointing out the state he got caught in are you trying to say he would or should have been let off elsewhere? what kind of liberal soft on crime thinking is that? the law is the law. add some of what Rush calls "little blue babies" and you got a bad mix.

 

[Ed]

I have never understood thi skind of thing. You only hear about it with famous people of course, but how do you get that far with a gun without the brain kicking in and saying"duh...got a gun..." All you have to do is unload it put it in a case and check it through....Not that hard. And they claim lots of time that they forgot they had it. If you forgot you were carrying a gun you need to think twice about carrying a gun.

 

[BerettaNut92]

OEF_Vet, sorry.

Shoulda been New Amsterdam Why they changed it, I can't say. People just liked it better that way?

 

[Andrew Rothman]

Zero sympathy. You don't get to bring guns on the plane. Does anybody not know that rule?

And I don't see that New York had anything to do with it. Betcha he'd get busted trying to bring a gun on a plane in Dallas, Little Rock or Phoenix, too!

edit: Whoops. Got the state wrong.

 

[Car Knocker]

OEF_VET,

And Teddy is better than Hillary how?

 

[Dave R]

I think there's a good chance he "forgot the gun was in his bag". Same as Jerry Jones of the Dallas Cowboys. And the poor schlub in front of me in Court one day. He got hit with a Misdemeanor for getting caught in the Boise airport. The prosecuting attorney seemed to know what was going on, too. She let him plead low, and then testified to the Judge that there was no belief that this was anything other than an accident. No intent to cause harm or commit a crime because there was not a "round in the chamber". Which is more detail than many attorneys would understand.

 

[makarov1]

All points well taken. I have to wonder what was the guy thinking? A gun caught by screeners will certainly land you in the pokey. If he had a case of "writer's block" I think he has enough material now to last him for a while.

 

[OEF_VET]

Car Knocker,

You're quite right, unfortunately. Thankfully, I was only born in Mass., and left soon after. The rest of New England is quite a bit different though.

Besides, Teddy wasn't elected, his family more or less bought the Senatorship. It's amazing what happens when Daddy was in bed with the mob.

Frank

 

[LynnMassGuy]

I personally don't want people who are high on prescription drugs toting guns at the airport. That was just dumb.

 

[Model520Fan]

Well, it's not very smart for a little old lady to take knitting needles, either. One can certainly understand that the screeners might be afraid she's going to make an Afghan.

BTW, MA's sins are not limited to Fat Teddy. Gerry Studds stayed in the House even after he was found to be a child molester (boys, of course - there was nothing un-queer about Gerry). As far as I know, ALL of MA's representatives are a disgrace to the people who voted them in. On the basis of federal representation, New York is nowhere near as pure as MA.

 

[Erik]

"Zero sympathy."

Ditto.