Cannabis addict who murdered two friends jailed for life
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- Cannabis addict who murdered two friends jailed for life
- Youth who had cannabis worth €32,000 given suspended sentence
- Ex-Border Patrol agent convicted of stealing marijuana
- Biggest ever cannabis factory found.
- Thousands of plants found in huge cannabis farm spanning six flats.
Cannabis addict who murdered two friends jailed for life
Telegraph.co.uk – Mar 21, 2007
Palmer had planned to spend the evening with his girlfriend, 17-year-old Ruth Cunningham, and she told police he seemed upset when she said she could not see him. A key issue in the case was the role Palmer’s drug use and mental illness had played in the killings. Palmer said he first tried cannabis when he was 14 and that, by the time he reached his 15th birthday, he was smoking it every day. He told prison doctors that the drug worsened his anxiety and that in the months before the killings he had started seeing and hearing things. Medical experts for the defence told the jury that Palmer was in the first stages of schizophrenia but had not yet developed the full-blown disease. But the prosecution this diagnosis as speculation and argued that Palmer could have been making up his symptoms. They said his heavy drug use had “exacerbated”, but not caused, the onset of schizophrenia.
Youth who had cannabis worth €32,000 given suspended sentence
Belfast Telegraph – Mar 21, 2007
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that John Dowdall of Clareville Grove, Glasnevin began abusing cannabis when he was 13-years-old. Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court said it was “yet another case of someone beginning with cannabis and then coming before the court for serious crime”. Dowdall pleaded guilty to having the drugs for sale or supply on March 28, 2005 at his home. More articles in Ireland.
Ex-Border Patrol agent convicted of stealing marijuana
FOX11AZ.com – FOX11AZ.com (subscription) – Mar 21, 2007
6, 2005, incident in which an Arizona Department of Public Safety officer pulled over a pickup truck on Highway 83 near Sonoita. When the truck came to a stop, the driver and passenger fled into the desert. They left behind numerous bundles of marijuana in the truck. As the DPS officer and other authorities chased the suspects, authorities said Gonzalez arrived in his Border Patrol vehicle and stayed behind to watch the marijuana. Prosecutors said a video camera inside a DPS car then filmed Gonzalez as he backed up his vehicle to the front of the truck, took a bundle of marijuana and put it in the trunk of his car. The video also shows him moving other bales to fill the space left by the missing bundle. Gonzalez then left, and the marijuana was never recovered, authorities said… Prosecutors said a video camera inside a DPS car then filmed Gonzalez as he backed up his vehicle to the front of the truck, took a bundle of marijuana and put it in the trunk of his car. The video also shows him moving other bales to fill the space left by the missing bundle. Gonzalez then left, and the marijuana was never recovered, authorities said. Gonzalez faces 10 years in prison and fines of $500,000 when he’s sentenced June 26.
Biggest ever cannabis factory found.
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Thousands of plants found in huge cannabis farm spanning six flats.
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–> COPYRIGHT 2007 Financial Times Ltd. (From The Star (Sheffield)) POLICE who were alerted to a suspected burglary in Sheffield discovered a huge cannabis farm spanning six flats, growing plants with a street value of GBP750,000. Officers discovered about 2,500 mature cannabis plants, which were ripe for harvesting, jam-packed into the flats on Infirmary Road,.