Opinion ID: 4676480
Heading Depth: 5
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Wheels ’N Stuff

Text: On January 25, 1998, Super Bowl Sunday, Byron Wilson and Aswad Pops parked outside of the Wheels ’N Stuff car wash on Sportsman Drive in Compton. Christopher Williams and Charles “Spanky” Hurd operated the car wash, which had been open for several months. Williams, Hurd, and other employees dealt marijuana from the car wash, a fact about which Wilson was aware. Williams testified that he and his coworkers “tend[ed] to smoke a lot of weed,” and the car wash customers “would want us to sell [them] some of the weed we were smoking and from time to time we would.” A soda vending machine was located inside the car wash, and sometimes marijuana was stored inside of it. The patrons and workers of the car wash, by and large, knew one another. Williams saw both patrons and workers of the car wash with large amounts of cash in their pockets. Williams testified that the car wash had no official employees, and Williams did not keep financial records. Williams explained that anyone who washed cars did so on a volunteer basis, and Williams made no money from car washing as Wheels ’N Stuff did not charge for washes, although donations were permitted. The business sporadically paid its workers, but they generally 2 PEOPLE v. WILSON