Man jailed after telling deputies thieves swiped his drug stash
Jeremy Roebuck
November 5, 2007 - 7:29PM
NORTH OF PEÑITAS — Masked men broke into Jose Guadalupe Flores’ home and robbed him at gunpoint.

But reporting the theft landed the 35-year-old Mexican national in jail.

Hidalgo County sheriff’s deputies arrested Flores on Friday after he told them the men stole 150 pounds of marijuana from his home near the intersection of Tom Gill Road and Mile 3 Road North.

“The guy walked right up and said the drugs were his,â€