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Pizza driver clocked for refusing pot payment

May 1, 2005

San Jose Mercury News: Fargo, N.D., police arrested a 21-year-old man on April 29 after he allegedly assaulted a pizza delivery driver who refused to take marijuana as payment for a pie, police said. The man, charged with robbery, was released from the Cass County Jail after posting $5,000 bond.

Pizza Patrol driver Atif Yasin thought the man was asleep when he arrived to deliver a medium pizza and 20-ounce soda. After knocking a few times and calling the man on his cell phone, Yasin said he answered the door in his boxers. The man took the pizza, spent a few minutes looking for money and then offered to pay with marijuana, Yasin said.

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