Son Rats Out Mom After She Calls Cops

It appears drugs are a family affair in Volusia County. The Orange City mother called deputies on her son to report him for using drugs, but when deputies got to her house they found thousands of dollars worth of her pot plants growing inside.

In the end, both mother and son were arrested. It all played out in their front yard. They probably could have avoided jail, but they couldn't help talking about what was inside the house that deputies couldn't see.

Michelle and Robert Pursley, mother and son, were having a whirlwind of a fight at their home Saturday and eventually Michelle decided she needed the sheriff.

"I've asked him to leave. He's slamming doors. He just busted a locked door and he's just being very outrageous. And I've told him to leave, please, and he will not leave," Michelle Pursley told a 911 dispatcher.

The incident report says Robert was unruly and he agreed to leave, but wanted to show deputies something first. He went back in the house and brought out his mother's seven marijuana plants.

"She acknowledged they were her plants. She indicated they were some sort of a project and she had no intention of selling it, distributing it, using it," said Gary Davidson, Volusia County Sheriff's Office.

Michelle even let deputies in the house to see the operation, which they promptly took apart and took into evidence.

"That qualifies as a cultivation charge. She was in fact charged with cultivation of marijuana and possession of narcotics paraphernalia," Davidson said.

It wasn't over though. Robert was so unruly he ended up in handcuffs in the back of a squad car. The report says, after spitting all over the car, he urinated everywhere and tore apart the back seat.

Both mom and son were out of jail Tuesday. The marijuana, which Pursley said she didn't intend to use, was estimated to be worth about $7,000.

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