Wednesday: Firing from deep

A former NCAA basketball player is facing Life or Death overseas.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
I did not know who Jared Shaw was, but apparently
he played basketball back in the day at Oklahoma State
and Utah State, and he then decided to go around
the around the world to play basketball for money, and
recently he ended up in Indonesia, and I guess he
wasn't familiar with Indonesian law because he picked up a

(00:23):
package at the airport that came from Thailand, and this
had some contraband in it. Now, in Thailand, it used
to be that cannabis slash marijuana was taboo. They have
relaxed the issues on that because there's a lot of
countries and a lot of studies that show that it's
good for pain medication and things like that, and better

(00:45):
for some than the opioid drugs. You can decide whether
it is or isn't. That's not the bate of this story. However,
in Indonesia, and I think this was Jakarta, it is
still very very taboo, the point to where they put
you in jail for a long time. And he is
looking at somewhere between life and death because the package

(01:07):
contained gummies that that that were laced with cannabis that
I guess he purchased from somebody in Thailand and they
shipped him to him in Indonesia and he went to
pick them up when they were brought in and they
were tagged, and then they came to his apartment and
said this is this is not only possession, but attempt

(01:28):
to distribute as well.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Oops.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Now maybe for himself if you take you know, one
to day, that's not that was that a four month supply?

Speaker 2 (01:36):
I get.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
I don't know so, but he may be able to
prove that it wasn't intent to distribute, which could be
get him a little lesser sentence. But they do execute
people by firing squad still in Indonesia.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Oh really, Oh okay, well that that could possibly take
a turn. Uh yeah, moral of the story just uh
don't don't uh don't ship.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
I think Indonesia was a place back in the nineties
where the kid that was graffiting property and cars and
damage in and doing destruction he was sentenced to like
thirty days in jail and like seventeen slashes with a cane.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
I mean that beats that beats the the alternative, Well,
it beats dying.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, it's still pretty painful from what the what they
what they say, this is permanent scarring as well. Well.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Again it beats the alternative. And remember back in the
day it was like, hey, if you were caught stealing,
if you which hand do you want gone?

Speaker 1 (02:31):
If you can't do the time, don't do the crime
and know and know what the rules are when you
go to wherever you're going. It's the indie average show
on the ticket.