A University of Florida associate professor of anthropology whose books include Time and Memory in Indigenous Amazonia and The Ecology of Power: Culture, Place and Personhood in the Southern Amazon was arrested last Saturday night on cocaine charges in Gainesville, according to FirstCoastNews. “An officer driving toward 46-year-old Michael Heckenberger saw him toss a small bag to the ground,” FCN reports. “The officer got the bag and tested it, finding it had cocaine in it. Heckenberger told the officer the cocaine wasn’t his, that he was just curious about it. He also told the officer that he had planned to trade the cocaine for sexual favors with a man who was nearby.” Great excuse, prof! By the way, the dog ate my midterm essay.
Arrested Author Says Coke Wasn’t for Him
Posted by Anneli Rufus at 2:31 pm, Monday, January 19, 2009
dafdaf Says:
October 30th, 2009 at 6:45 amVisit dafdaf
I am a student at UF. I’m mad he got reinstated for next semester! I don’t think I’d feel comfortable taking a class from a man who was “curious” about cocaine… I don’t think curiosity is enough drive to actually get you to purchase the drug! He lied, he used it. Also, what makes it worse was that he wanted to use for gay prostitution… do I really want to be spending hours and hours through a semester learning from this man who clearly doesn’t even know how to obey a simple law that should have gotten him fired?