"Hikers may be charged for rescue in Calif." Associated Press, May 04, 2013
SANTA ANA, Calif. — Two teenage hikers lost for days in a California forest might have to pay for part or all of the $160,000 search after a small amount of drugs was found in their car, authorities said.
California cops really not good in the woods, are they?
Officials initially said Nicolas Cendoya, 19, and Kyndall Jack, 18, wouldn’t be responsible. But Cendoya was charged this week with drug possession because methamphetamine was allegedly found in the car the pair parked before going on a hike last month in Cleveland National Forest....
But access to medical marijuana is the big concern in this country.
Both were dehydrated and delirious, and remembered little of their ordeal. They also said they had hallucinations, with Jack saying she thought she was being attacked by animals.
‘‘They didn’t go out there to hike, they went out there to get high. And they got disoriented,’’ Orange County board supervisor Todd Spitzer told the Los Angeles Times .
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