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SAY HIS NAME: MARVIN SCOTT III

at 2:23 p.m. on March 15, 2021. She immediately knew what it meant. The Allen Police Department had arrested her son, Marvin Scott III, a day prior for possessing less than two ounces of cannabis and, after observing behavior they described as “erratic,” taken

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