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Updated: 2:53 AM Apr 30, 2009
MTV Producers Bond Jesco Out of Jail
Entertainer Jesco White, best known as West Virginia's "Dancing Outlaw," was arrested Monday night on drug charges.
Posted: 7:19 PM Apr 28, 2009Reporter: WSAZ News Staff Email Address: news@wsaz.com |
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UPDATE: Wednesday, April 29th 1 p.m.
LOGAN COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Producers from MTV posted bond Wednesday morning for Jesco White, the man best known as West Virginia's "Dancing Outlaw." Those are the same producers of the new documentary, "The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia," which features Jesco and members of his family.
White was released from Southwestern Regional Jail around 10 a.m.
Original Story
BOONE COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Entertainer Jesco White, best known as West Virginia's "Dancing Outlaw," was arrested Monday night on drug charges.
Boone County Sheriff Rodney Miller tells WSAZ.com that charges were filed against White Monday afternoon.
Miller says they got a tip that Jesco and his sister,Sue Ann, were going to buy cocaine off a local dealer. They were busted with more than 2 grams of cocaine.
They are both facing Felony charges of Conspiracy and Delivery of a Controlled Substance.
A recent documentary about White from MTV producers debuted last weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival. Members of White's family said the film casts them in a negative light, and they say they have changed their ways since then.
Sheriff Miller says the film also has the family suspicious of authorities.
“They thought that as a result of the film law enforcement were on some type of headhunting exhibition. It's just a matter of timing more than anything else,” he said.
For Mamie White, she’s upset that her family has gotten another black eye.
“It makes me sad and heartbroken. I try to preach and preach and preach, but nobody will listen to me,” Mamie said. “I think this here will teach Jesco White a big lesson.”
Jesco gave a jailhouse interview Tuesday. He says he’s been clean for 30 years and doesn’t do cocaine. He’s known for loving the spotlight, but he doesn’t appreciate this negative attention.
“I'm hurt and embarrassed,” Jesco said. “I'm not a bad person.”
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Well hell, i am not from WV, but i have been there....and i wish i had had the chance to meet EVERYONE of the Whites!I have every documentary of them, and I LOVE EM!You keep doing what you are doing Jesco!And MTV!!..I can relate to these ppl, i think that's why i watch them so much, right down to living in mobile homes!..The school's calling those kids "dirty white trash"..the drugs!alcohol..no JOBS except for working in the coal mines,which a woman can't do,but where we come from would if they would let us!Boone County reminds me of here..Breathiit County, better known as "Bloody Breathitt"...D. Ray making it big,and then being murdered reminds me of a good old boy from here..Roy Lee Centers, great bluegrass singer,and could play so well he was with Ralph Stanley until "jealousy took his young life"..murdered by Billy Hurst..and his wife Jerry!..I think the haters need to leave Jesco alone..let him have fun, he is an awesome dancer..those of ya that don't like him, why do you watch and then comment, i think there are just some "jealous" ppl in WV!..These are my kind of ppl, i could get along w/any of them..Jesco needs some "fun" in his life, and he is a "STAR"I can't think of one person that has watched those that hasn't flipped out over him, and his family, b/c just like his sister says in the last one.."You can't believe everything you hear, seeing is believing"...and i myself am just a hillbilly too, and i believe any one of them are like me, they would give you the shirt off their back, but at the same time won't take any sh**...like i said..my kind of ppl!..LOVE YOU JESCO WHITE..Big Fan fr:Jackson,KY!
Hey MTV where were u when lindsay lohan needed you? lol
Why is this drivel on massey's site? Makes one wonder who's side WSAZ's bread is buttered on! Lost a viewer on your channel for life. AMAZING!!!
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