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 weed in her vehicle while driving home.Wells is now serving six months unsupervised probation. 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.
According to police, Wells over was pulled over after she swerved across the fog lines and center lines of State Highway 33 and repeatedly sped up and slowed down.
The officer who stopped her said he smelled burning marijuana.
Dawn told him that she'd just given a ride to three hitchhikers and had dropped them off when they began smoking something. I love that! Like a tiny 69 year old woman would pick up hitch hikers, and she said "smoking something" like she didn't know what it was when she was busted for sending Gilligan some weed about 10 years ago!
Police found three half-smoked joints in the ashtray, a fourth half-smoked joint and two small cases used to store marijuana.
