12. FALSE GHB ARREST - January 2016 One night in January Mandi texted me that she was going to Georgia and might not come back. I understood her to be saying "I am moving out of state and this is your last chance to see me." She thought I might give her some money. I told her good, go to Georgia. You are stuck in a rut and moving to a new place might be good for you and for me. See ya. I don’t know what all they were doing in Georgia. Mandi had flights of fancy that she was on some new life adventure, and Chris Dahl would marry her or something. It was Mandi, and Chris Dahl, their roommate and convicted meth dealer James Jay Arnold, and another meth dealer with an active case, Johnathan Travis Jones. Mandi was 20, and all these dudes were like 35 and 40. T was loaded with cash and bought some backpacks, and bought some new designer clothes and put them in the backpacks. A few weeks later, when police let us get the property out of Mandi's car at the impound, it was packed to the gills with stuff. It filled my extended-cab pickup. There was a suitcase, bags, boxes, kitchen stuff, random stuff, guys stuff. She never provided me any relevant details of what they were doing, but it seemed like everything someone owned was in there. The police were laughing at me under their umbrellas, after the tenth trip from her car to mine. The guys Mandi was with rented a Mercedes at the party car rental place near the Orlando airport. I don’t think any of those guys even had a car that would make it to Georgia. If they did, probably they would not want to get pulled over with meth and get it confiscated. T paid the rental place with cash, and they disconnected the satellite transponder so they could drive out of state. And Mandi drove in her own car. At some point they rented a motel room. But T got paranoid when he saw some cops at the motel, so they left and rented a room at a different motel. By any rational analysis, Mandi had nothing to do with any of this, and was just brought along as a sex toy. Or at worst, to look more like a family driving to Disney. Somewhere north of the Georgia border near Macon, the Mercedes hit a coyote and got totaled. The way Mandi described it, with the exact details of every step the coyote took, Mandi would have to be riding in the Mercedes when it happened. Given that Mandi would not let anyone else drive her BMW and was almost certainly driving her own car when the Mercedes hit the coyote, it seems just as likely she is making up stories. She could have only seen about half of what she claimed to have seen, if the Mercedes was in front and she was following right behind. In any case, they used AAA to have the totaled Mercedes towed back to Orlando. And they went to the airport to rent another car. T flashed some cash at the rental counter. An employee at the rental counter tipped off police that someone was traveling with a large amount of cash. Just as they drove out of the airport with the new rental car, they pulled off to the side and took a backpack out of Mandi's car that had meth in it, and put it in the new rental car. They surely knew Mandi was stupid enough to drive down the road with a load of meth while they tailed her. But they were not stupid enough to trust her with meth in her car. They all arrived at the airport in Mandi's car. So it makes perfect sense everything from the crashed Mercedes rental car was in her car. But they only took out their meth and put it in the new rental car as soon as they left. So it seems they left everything else that had been in the rental car that crashed, in Mandi's car. But Mandi would rather tell you she was a meth trafficker just because she briefly had meth in her car, than that she fucked all these guys in motels in exchange for weed. The truth is not much to brag about. The truth is embarrassing and childlike. The truth is that next thing she got arrested, and spent two weeks in jail, for something totally legal worth $10. After they left the airport, they were driving South down I-75 through Butts County. Mandi was driving behind with James, and Chris was driving the rental car with T and some meth in front. A police car came racing up behind Mandi, but went past her and pulled over the rental car with Chris driving. Police asked if they had any large I-3l