J.C. France arrested on drug charges

[Jonesi]

A grandson of NASCAR founder Bill France has been arrested on drug charges. According to a Daytona Beach police report, J.C. France was arrested early Thursday morning on charges of possession of narcotics and driving under the influence. The report states that an officer found a small bag containing a "white cakelike substance" during a traffic stop. France is the son of NASCAR board member Jim France and a driver in NASCAR's Grand-Am Series. According to a statement from NASCAR spokesman Ramsey Poston, he has been indefinitely suspended from all competition. Poston says Frace is being treated "like any other competitor." France posted $4,500 bond and was released from Volusia County jail on Thursday
http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/nascar/news/story?id=4543577

[Easy Drifter]

Apparently his half brother was also nailed and threatened the officer. :eek:

[muggle not]

And such a nice clean cut guy. :D
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tmz.com/media/2009/10/mug.jpg

[Steve2009]

JC France said:


No, this is a mistake for you," he told the officer, according to the report. "I'm a France, we own this city."

"You're done," he reportedly told an officer. "Your job is over. This is the biggest mistake ever and your [sic] so done in Daytona."


Homeboy was talkin' some $hi+ :D
It'll be interesting if they can make the DUI stick.
And the possession for that matter, since it wasn’t found on his person.
A good lawyer could get this reduced to reckless driving, and disturbing the peace!
As long as JC didn't incriminate himself!

[Easy Drifter]

I wonder if the cops had video and sound. If they did they are probably well and truly busted.
NASCAR (Grand Am) has suspended him.
I wonder what Mayfield thinks of this!

[Jonesi]

I wonder if the cops had video and sound. If they did they are probably well and truly busted.
NASCAR (Grand Am) has suspended him.
I wonder what Mayfield thinks of this!

Most patrol cars in major cities do have video. I would be real interesting if they "say" they don't.

[Jag_Warrior]

If history repeats itself, he'll probably start an open wheel series in a few years. Maybe he's got a "vision".

What's that you say, J.C.?
http://dalockerroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/RickJamesCocaine-400x320.jpg

[Lee Roy]

^ Hahahahahahaha

[Steve2009]

I wonder if the cops had video and sound. If they did they are probably well and truly busted.
NASCAR (Grand Am) has suspended him.
I wonder what Mayfield thinks of this!
The video wouldn't be of any real help for the prosecution.
I don't think it's an assault in Fla to yell at a cop 'you made a mistake, your done".
If JC doesn't own up to the coke, and refuses the piss test. He will have his license suspended for a year (I think that is statutory)
I really expect this confrontation with the police to be pleaded down to disturbing the peace or maybe obstructing an officer.

Don't get me wrong! I hope they throw the book at him!

[Alexamateo]

JC France said:


No, this is a mistake for you," he told the officer, according to the report. "I'm a France, we own this city."

"You're done," he reportedly told an officer. "Your job is over. This is the biggest mistake ever and your [sic] so done in Daytona."


Homeboy was talkin' some $hi+ :D
It'll be interesting if they can make the DUI stick.
And the possession for that matter, since it wasn’t found on his person.
A good lawyer could get this reduced to reckless driving, and disturbing the peace!
As long as JC didn't incriminate himself!

To be fair, it was half-brother Russell Richmond that threatened the cops, not JC France. He's a France, too, albeit an illigitimite one.

[tsarcasm]

So when Cops is on and a brother is caught w/blow you all whoop and cheer when he goes to jail for years (felony)

but when a spoiled boy gets caught DUI, Oxy. Cocain, and Careless&Imprudent

it's okay......

[Steve2009]

So when Cops is on and a brother is caught w/blow you all whoop and cheer when he goes to jail for years (felony)

but when a spoiled boy gets caught DUI, Oxy. Cocain, and Careless&Imprudent

it's okay......I hope this comment wasn't directed at my post!
The reality is not equitable that is for sure!
All I was saying is if he doesn't incriminate himself.
That is the operative phrase in my discussion. He will most likely end up having some of the charges droped.
In fact that is usually how it happens with anyone black or white.
The real difference is that someone who cant make bail will be held in the lock-up.
The cops will run snitch after snith by them trying to get them to "confide" (talk) to someone.
It's SOP! if their case is a little weak,
Any lawyer can beat it down to a plea!

[Mihai]

Hey, is it the same JC France that went into a fist fight with Chris Bingham a few years ago? I read a Top 10 motorsports road rage caught on video a couple of weeks ago and the France-Bingham match was ranked 2nd best of all times : :D
http://www.topgear.ro/blog/2009/09/top-10-durii-circuitelor/

[jeffconn]

Of course, Grand-Am and the France family will insist on JC undergoing psychological testing. :laugh:

[Mark in Oshawa]

To be fair, it was half-brother Russell Richmond that threatened the cops, not JC France. He's a France, too, albeit an illigitimite one.

Russel Richmond is a half brother, but Jim France's ex had him after they split, so he is JC's half brother, but no a France in any way shape or form. Not that it matters, when JC is such a fine upstanding citizen.

You know what they say about great family businesses and the 3rd generation. The 3rd usually blows it. JC thank god isn't running NASCAR. Brian maybe a lot of things, but he hasn't struck me as stupid nor a drug fiend.

Of course, Mayfield thinks the France family are like the Capones...but he may be the only one, at least, now until JC got caught. Maybe he and Jeremy did drugs together and THAT is why Mayfield made the crack about the Frances being in the drug trade???

Öf course...that is just my personal speculation, and all parties are innocent until proven guilty......right?

[Jonesi]

Russel Richmond is a half brother, but Jim France's ex had him after they split, so he is JC's half brother, but no a France in any way shape or form. Not that it matters, when JC is such a fine upstanding citizen.

You know what they say about great family businesses and the 3rd generation. The 3rd usually blows it. JC thank god isn't running NASCAR. Brian maybe a lot of things, but he hasn't struck me as stupid nor a drug fiend.

Of course, Mayfield thinks the France family are like the Capones...but he may be the only one, at least, now until JC got caught. Maybe he and Jeremy did drugs together and THAT is why Mayfield made the crack about the Frances being in the drug trade???

Öf course...that is just my personal speculation, and all parties are innocent until proven guilty......right?

I took the comment to be a reference to their early drivers running 'shine and the decades of Winston sponsorship.

[Jag_Warrior]

I don't know that the old "it ain't mine" defense is going to work in this case. My guess is, to avoid a felony conviction, he'll need "The Family" to pull some strings behind closed doors. Afterall, it was his car. A bag of coke under the seat, a dead hooker in the trunk or an Uzi under a blanket... if it's your car, you prolly have some 'splainin' to do, Lucy!

And one more thing. I'd never seen this guy before. But what a mug on that youngin'! Can anybody on here say (with a straight face) that he doesn't look like the Missing Link? :D I'm serious now! If not for him having money and having the last name "France (living in Florida), I think we could all agree that he'd have to go to the zoo to find a date... and even then!

Hell fire in the nation!!! Maybe Geico will hire him as a stand-in caveman.
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tmz.com/media/2009/10/mug.jpg

[Jonesi]

I don't know that the old "it ain't mine" defense is going to work in this case. My guess is, to avoid a felony conviction, he'll need "The Family" to pull some strings behind closed doors. Afterall, it was his car. A bag of coke under the seat, a dead hooker in the trunk or an Uzi under a blanket... if it's your car, you prolly have some 'splainin' to do, Lucy!

Only $4,500 bond tells me he probably is not looking at Felony charges. If Florida is like most other states, if you didn't hurt anybody and you only had "personal" quanity of the drug then they generally don't persue it as a felony, unless you'll had prior conviction(s). Of course that could easily change if he's stupid enough to give the ADA attitude in the meetings. :p :

[Jag_Warrior]

Only $4,500 bond tells me he probably is not looking at Felony charges. If Florida is like most other states, if you didn't hurt anybody and you only had "personal" quanity of the drug then they generally don't persue it as a felony, unless you'll had prior conviction(s). Of course that could easily change if he's stupid enough to give the ADA attitude in the meetings. :p :

One of my tenants was arrested on a felony fraud charge and her bail was only $2500. I've heard of marijuana being a misdemeanor, using the "personal quantity" thing. But I didn't realize cocaine (or heroin) fell into that category anywhere. Maybe so - especially in Florida. I looked up my state's laws on coke(and heroin) and it's "any detectable amount is a felony."

I looked at a couple of other news sites and no mention has been made if he's being charged with a felony or not. But I saw that he was apparently racing the other goof in his Lamborghini, the other guy being in a Porsche. I thought maybe they were in the same car, and France would claim the drugs belonged to the other guy.

Racing, drunk/drugged driving, blowing through a red light and possessing a controlled substance.

"Ah son, you is in a whoooooole lotta trouble!"
http://www.springfieldinjurylawblog.com/uploads/image/justice.gif

[harvick#1]

another waste of space on this planet :rolleyes: this gen of the Frances sure did put Nascar in a great spotlight

[Skater36]

Brian France was able to make his hit and run/dui go away so I wouldn't expect much to come of this one either.

The France family does own that town and they do as they please.

[Steve2009]

One of my tenants was arrested on a felony fraud charge and her bail was only $2500. I've heard of marijuana being a misdemeanor, using the "personal quantity" thing. But I didn't realize cocaine (or heroin) fell into that category anywhere. Maybe so - especially in Florida. I looked up my state's laws on coke(and heroin) and it's "any detectable amount is a felony."

I looked at a couple of other news sites and no mention has been made if he's being charged with a felony or not. But I saw that he was apparently racing the other goof in his Lamborghini, the other guy being in a Porsche. I thought maybe they were in the same car, and France would claim the drugs belonged to the other guy.

Racing, drunk/drugged driving, blowing through a red light and possessing a controlled substance
With all due respect I say he skates in relative terms!

[Steve2009]

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[Steve2009]

Now this is a horse of a different color.


The paper reported that Daytona Beach police stopped the men separately after spotting them speeding across the bridge, and that when France got out of the car he had a "flushed face, bloodshot eyes and slurred speech" and had to lean on the car to hold himself up, according to police. Police found a plastic bag in his pocket that was reportedly determined later to be cocaine. At the separate traffic stop, police reportedly also found a plastic bag with cocaine in Richmond's pockets, as well as a tablet of hydrocodone in a container attached to his key ring. Both men were charged with DUI and cocaine possession, with Richmond additionally charged with hydrocodone possession and threatening a public official, and both were taken into custody at the Volusia County Branch Jail but were bailed out by Thursday afternoon
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=158828

If this report is accurate, These freakin' guys are toast! :eek:
And defimately not very bright :s mokin:

[Mark in Oshawa]

Brian France was able to make his hit and run/dui go away so I wouldn't expect much to come of this one either.

The France family does own that town and they do as they please.

A lot of people have DUI's go away, and not all are rich guys either. This tho, was a bit more flagrant. That, and the family may let him swing to show him who's boss...I know Bill Jr would be in favour of it....

[slorydn1]

Cocaine is a Schedule II narcotic drug and as such it is a felony in most (if not all) states to be in possession of it.

AND if you are in an enclosed space (like a vehicle, for example) and no one in the vehicle pipes up and claims it as their own, then EVERYONE in that vehicle holds a possession charge (its called "constructive possession") and prison is full of people who "constructively possesed a narcotic

As for the rest of it, who knows, maybe the jerk resisted some.... All that would get you here is and ROD charge (resist,obstruct, and Delay) unless some kind of agressive act was committed (a swing, punch, kick , etc)