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Revisit our doc, 'The Real Walter White?':
So yes, there were parallels between both how she and Walter started out in the drugs world—a lack of money—and their ability to hold down their day jobs while they started to navigate their side hustles. But one of the weirdest aspects of this case centers on the fact that none of the cannabis grown in the McKay's B&B was ever sold.This is where Susan's story veers away from life imitating art, whether you've cast her as Weeds' Nancy Botwin or Walter White in your mind. The cannabis was just sitting there: in the black grow room tents positioned in three of the B&B's bedrooms and drying in one of the bathrooms. There's almost no information out yet on how exactly a teacher who said she'd "never been in trouble before" landed the equipment and know-how to fill parts of her house with more than 100 cannabis plants. This feels like as good a time as any to reintroduce her 27-year-old son, Michael.One small mistake he made catalyzed the whole grow operation's breakdown, when police pulled him over for driving without lights in Denbighshire in April 2014. After the cops smelled cannabis coming from inside the car, a quick search uncovered about £1,000 [$1,400] worth of the drug. Michael, a heavyweight boxer who actually lived in Chester, was on his way to his parents' house that night, and police discovered the whole stash when they then searched the B&B. He said later in court that his mom had approached him with the idea and, against his better judgment, he'd agreed to help."I must have had a breakdown because of what has been happening in my personal life," Susan said last year, after being handed a suspended jail time sentence. "I am not a bad person."As it stands, she and her husband have 20-month jail sentences, suspended for 18 months at their original sentencing, while Michael was given a five-month sentence, suspended for a year. If they don't pay up those criminal benefit estimates, jail awaits. Hey, even Nancy Botwin had to suck it up and serve a bit of prison time.