Glendale Resident, 20, Reportedly Draws Roadmap For Teens To Find Pot
GLENDALE (CBS) — Investigators say a 20-year-old man set up a path with blue tape where high school students could follow the blue arrows to a Glendale home where he would sell them marijuana.
"I just knew that there were a lot of people coming and going that didn't live in the neighborhood," said John Samuelson, one of Flye's neighbors.
Another neighbor said, "Sometimes at night I can smell the marijuana coming from that house," as they pointed to Flye's home.
Detectives received numerous tips that teenagers were coming to the apartment and buying weed from Kenneth Flye.
Undercover police officers reportedly kept Flye under surveillance.
"Sitting there, it didn't take long. If we get that many tips, obviously, he is that active and we started to see customers arrive," said Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz.
Police say they caught high school students leaving the house with pot and detectives arrested Flye Tuesday night for suspicion of selling marijuana. They reportedly found a pound of weed inside, a scale and a container labeled "Skunk".
KCAL9 found Flye at his home Thursday afternoon after he had just bailed out of jail and had no comment on his arrest. However, his girlfriend, Rachel Nesmith, told KCAL9 that Flye smokes with his friends but doesn't sell marijuana.
"He doesn't sell?" KCAL9 reporter Amanda Burden asked Nesmith.
"No, he doesn't sell weed," she said.
"What about the teenagers who were leaving with marijuana?" Burden said.
"They took it for free," Nesmith said.
Nesmith said the apartment belongs to her and that Flye doesn't live there.
When asked why there were reportedly blue arrows leading to her apartment Nesmith replied, "That is for an Avon business. My mom does Avon in the back."
KCAL9 asked Nesmith's mother if Flye was selling pot out of that apartment and she replied, "No!", with no further comment.
"Sooner or later it's going to come back to you. It's a lesson for the young people: if you sell it, you're going to do the time," Samuelson said of his neighbor.
