LUFKIN, Texas (WKRC) – Police said they were searching for a man who allegedly hid plastic Easter eggs across his city containing marijuana, then posted clues on how to find them to social media.
According to a press release from the Lufkin Police Department, officers received a tip about a Facebook account that was posting about plastic eggs full of marijuana hidden in various parks around the city as part of a scavenger hunt.
“The suspect posted four photos on Facebook showing each location as hints to locate the eggs,” the release said. “He also posted a photo of five plastic eggs in the seat of a vehicle. Officers found four eggs and believed he had not placed the fifth.”
Officers learned they were incorrect in their assumption when a man and his granddaughter turned the final egg into the department the next day, having also found it in a park, per the release. In total, officers said they recovered over a quarter of an ounce of marijuana.
Investigators identified Avante Nicholson as the suspect behind the scavenger hunt by combing through his Facebook account, the release said.
“They also found statements referencing selling narcotics on multiple occasions and in the posts, he states whoever ‘shopped’ with him the day of the scavenger hunt would get hints to the locations of the eggs,” the department wrote in the release.
Times are tough for weed dealers. Recreational marijuana is legal in half of the United States. In most states where recreational weed isn’t legal, medical marijuana is. Which is as easy to get as making an 10 minute appointment with a doctor in the back of a dispensary and telling him you have bad knees from player catcher in high school (that’s the lie I used). On top of that you have all the “basically weed” alternatives. All the different numbered Deltas that despite giving you the same high, have a slightly different chemical makeup that allows it to skirt the state’s weed laws. Kids have options nowadays. It’s too easy to get high. The independent street dealer is on his way out. Why sit waiting in a car for 45 minutes while your dealer finishes up 3 more games of FIFA before finally showing up to make a sketchy hand-to-hand deal in strip mall parking lot? There’s no longer a need to.
Texas is probably one of the few states left where dealing weed is even a viable option. But even in Texas, medical is legal, and stores can recreationally sell a CBD/THC hybrid (according to this map)
I’d also imagine it’s not all difficult to order from one of a hundred different weed selling websites. So even Texas dealers are having to get creative. Guys like Avante Nicholson are running holiday specials to drum up business. And when you have year where 4/20 and Easter falling on the same day, that’s the marketing opportunity of a lifetime. How could you pass up a chance to run an Easter eggs stuffed with weed hunt. A weedster egg hunt, if you will. That’s just good business.
Hell if I’m look to hire a young and hungry salesman, I might have to give Avante Nicholson a look. He’s got more initiative than all the drug dealers I’ve met in my life combined. Which admittedly is still a pretty low bar. But still… he’s thinking like a salesman. If there’s one thing I know from my years of working in sales, it’s that companies do not give a fuck about your criminal record if you’ve proved you can make their company money. And did Avante really do anything that bad? I know the cops are playing the whole, “these drugs could wind up in the hands of kids” angle. But does marijuana around kids even move the needle anymore? What is a child going to do if they find an egg full of weed? Eat it? It tastes too gross for that. And if they did eat it, what’s really goin to happen? Will they even get high? I actually don’t know. I’ve never ate weed tartare. It probably wouldn’t make you feel great, but it’s not killing anybody. Any kid old enough to actually know what to do with the weed, and decides to go through with smoking it, that kid was going to start smoking weed within a calendar year anyways. There’s no shielding kids from marijuana anymore. They’re going to be presented with an opportunity to smoke it eventually. Unless Avante is one of those evil, mythical drug dealers that D.A.R.E. warned us about who laces his weed with harder, more expensive drugs, then nobody is dying from his Easter egg weed hunt.
On the contrary… I guess it doesn’t bode that well for Avante’s decision making to think Facebook was a good place to advertise his illegal drug sales. I know people do it all the time now. I’m sure they’re getting away with it all the time too. But it seems a little risky. Being in the independent illegal weed selling business at all in 2025 is just a ridiculous decision. It’s on par with being a beeper salesman in the 2000’s. You’re living in the past man. Get out of the weed business, Avante. Either find a way to parlay this viral incident into a legitimate sales job, or move onto selling fentanyl like an adult.
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