Teen Faces Potential Life Sentence in Prison for Illegal Brownie Recipe

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ROUND ROCK, TX — A young man’s baked goods could potentially land him with a harsher punishment than a rapist or a murderer.  The teen faces a a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted of using unsanctioned ingredients in his cookies and brownies and selling them to eager customers.

According to police, 19-year-old Jacob Lavoro would accommodate customers’ requests to bake them desserts with a special ingredient — marijuana.  For $25 he would allegedly sell his brownies and cookies to folks who wished to enjoy them.  According to a text conversation, he would even deliver them.

Police searched Lavoro’s apartment and found six (6) bags of cookies, nine (9) bags of brownies, baking ingredients, illegal plant material, and cash.

One of the ingredients seized was a container of coconut oil blended with marijuana and hash oil.  The green oily substance was allegedly used in his recipes.

When charging people with drug offenses involving baked goods, Texas law allows police to use the weight of the entire finished product when determining the severity of charge.  Even if a trace amount of marijuana was used in a recipe for a pan of brownies, police use the collective weight of all the ingredients — eggs, butter, chocolate, sugar, frosting — and use that figure as the total weight of the “drug” they confiscated.

Police say that the baked goods and ingredients seized from Jacob Lavoro’s apartment weighed 660 grams — or 1.45 pounds.  In the Texas “justice” system, this amount of illegal plant material carries a weighty sentence.

Police charged Lavoro with the possession, manufacture, and delivery of a controlled substance in a “Penalty 2 Group.”  With a weight of nearly a pound and a half, the 1st Degree Felony charge carries a sentence of 5 years to life in prison.

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