Gilligan’s Mary Ann Busted With Mary Jane
I always liked Ginger anyway…that gives me an idea for a babe contest…
DRIGGS, Idaho — Perhaps they should have called her Mary Jane.
A surprise birthday party for Dawn Wells, the actress who played Mary Ann on “Gilligan’s Island,” ended with a nearly three-hour tour of the Teton County sheriff’s office and jail when the 69-year-old was caught with marijuana in her vehicle while driving home.
Wells is now serving six months’ unsupervised probation for the crime. She was sentenced Feb. 29 to five days in jail, fined $410.50 and placed on probation after pleading guilty to one count of reckless driving.
The guilty plea came as part of an agreement with prosecutors in which three misdemeanor counts — driving under the influence, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance — were dropped.
The case began the night of Oct. 18, when Teton County sheriff’s Deputy Joseph Gutierrez arrested Wells as she was driving home from a surprise birthday party. She posted $4,000 bond and was arraigned on the charges the following day, pleading not guilty. A trial on the matter was scheduled for March 13, but was canceled because of the plea agreement.
According to the sheriff’s office report, Gutierrez pulled Wells over after noticing her swerve across the fog lines and center lines of State Highway 33 and repeatedly speed up and slow down.
“I exited my patrol vehicle and immediately was able to smell a strong odor of burning marijuana,” Gutierrez wrote in his report. “As I approached the vehicle I noticed all four window (sic) of the vehicle were lowered and the female driver was not wearing a jacket.”
When Gutierrez asked why he could smell marijuana, Wells reportedly told him that she’d just given a ride to three hitchhikers and had dropped them off when they began smoking something. When Gutierrez searched the car, he found three half-smoked joints in the ashtray and console, according to the report. A second search after Wells’ arrest netted a fourth half-smoked joint and two small cases used to store marijuana, Gutierrez said.
After Wells failed a field sobriety test, she was handcuffed and taken to the sheriff’s office.
Wells’ attorney, Ron Swafford, of Idaho Falls, told the Post Register that a friend of Wells’ voluntarily testified that he’d left a small amount of marijuana in the vehicle after having used the vehicle that day, and that Wells was unaware of it.
Swafford said several witnesses were prepared to testify that Wells had very little to drink at the party and was not intoxicated when she left. He said she was swerving on the road because she was trying to find the heater controls in her new car.
Wells is the founder of the Idaho Film and Television Institute in Driggs and the organizer of the region’s annual family movie festival called the Spud Fest.
(Fox)
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Read this earlier, the mug shot is pretty funny.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:19 pmI always like the episode where she thought she was Ginger, and everyone had to play along …
Poor Ginger watched painfully and silently as Mary Ann cut up all [her] beautiful gowns because they seemed to be too long.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:32 pm1998 Memories — Bob Denver was busted for signing his name to a FedEx Delivery of 30 grams of weed. IT WAS SAID HIS CO STAR DAWN WELLS SET THE SHIPMENT UP.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:43 pmLOL.
Maybe the ghost of Bob Denver was the unnamed person that borrowed Wells car and supposedly left the weed in her car.
Didja know both Raquel Welch and Jayne Mansfield auditioned for the role of Ginger? You can look it up on the IMDb.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:20 pmOkay everybody … Favorite “Gilligan’s Island” episode?
Mine …
The one where Gilligan hit his head and his fillings jammed together to turn him into a radio.
Then there’s the one with the forgotten WWII Japanese soldier who comes ashore with his Coke-bottle glasses and takes everyone prisoner.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:42 pmBob was her dealer…
March 11th, 2008 at 2:43 pm“When Gutierrez asked why he could smell marijuana, Wells reportedly told him that she’d just given a ride to three hitchhikers and had dropped them off when they began smoking something.”
Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale…
March 11th, 2008 at 3:48 pmToo bad. At least she didn’t blame it on the homemade brownies. DUI (stoned) is overlooked far more than DWI.
Screwiest episode was probably the helium vent one that inspired the prof. & crew to fabricate the balloon out of raincoats. Didn’t Kurt the jungle boy Russel sail that to Hawaii?
March 11th, 2008 at 5:01 pmWow! Mary Ann I am disappointed in you.
March 11th, 2008 at 5:09 pmWhatever. I still love Mary Ann. Dawn Wells was always hot.
March 11th, 2008 at 5:40 pmToo bad she’s also “high”. Disappointing…
No friggin’ wonder she was always whipping up coconut cream pies on the island …
She and Gilligan had the munchies from all the Maui Wowie!
March 11th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
maggie 
March 11th, 2008 at 7:37 pmGinger looks like she could’ve benefitted from 2 or 3 double cheeseburgers. As skinny as she was, I’da hit it.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:38 pm