Police seek help in cannabis plot
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- Police seek help in cannabis plot
- Cannabis teens accept counselling
- Seattle OK’d similar pot initiative
- Naples Park couple charged with marijuana trafficking
- Students caught with marijuana sent to judicial board
- Local: Lots of marijuana found in pickup | marijuana, police, guevara…
- BRIEF: Police find 319 lbs. of marijuana in truck.
Police seek help in cannabis plot
Stuff.co.nz - Oct 31, 2007
Cannabis growers are planting the drugs throughout the district and Police want people to watch for any unusual comings and goings in their area, particularly in rural districts. Suspicious activity can include strange vehicles driving up and down the road or parked on the roadside, unusual lights in the bush at night and items such as fencing equipment and possum traps going missing. Cannabis is also grown in urban areas when growers use private residences to cultivate the plants indoors. Officer in charge of Organised Crime Detective Sergeant John Miller asks people to watch for curtains being closed frequently, unusual odours coming from the house and lots of people visiting during the day and night. Last year, Northland Police discovered 13 indoor cannabis growing operations during the annual cannabis and crime operation… Cannabis growers are planting the drugs throughout the district and Police want people to watch for any unusual comings and goings in their area, particularly in rural districts. Suspicious activity can include strange vehicles driving up and down the road or parked on the roadside, unusual lights in the bush at night and items such as fencing equipment and possum traps going missing. Cannabis is also grown in urban areas when growers use private residences to cultivate the plants indoors. Officer in charge of Organised Crime Detective Sergeant John Miller asks people to watch for curtains being closed frequently, unusual odours coming from the house and lots of people visiting during the day and night. Last year, Northland Police discovered 13 indoor cannabis growing operations during the annual cannabis and crime operation. If people have any information relating to cannabis growing they can phone 0800 BAN DRUGS. Calls can be made anonymously, but names would be preferred so Police can contact the caller if they need more information.
Cannabis teens accept counselling
New Zealand Herald - Oct 31, 2007
Four of the 11 boarders caught growing half-a-dozen cannabis seedlings have been expelled. Another boy has had his suspension extended until a meeting of the college’s board of trustees in a fortnight. The Year 11 students - nine aged 16 and two 15-year-olds - were sent home to various parts of the country this month after the tiny plantation was discovered. College headmaster Gary O’Shea confirmed yesterday that the board of trustees had allowed six former boarders to return to the day school. Mr O’Shea said he was pleased the board had made a balanced decision and hadn’t expelled all 11 boys involved… College headmaster Gary O’Shea confirmed yesterday that the board of trustees had allowed six former boarders to return to the day school. Mr O’Shea said he was pleased the board had made a balanced decision and hadn’t expelled all 11 boys involved. Some had become caught up in the cannabis-growing operation and had not been directly involved in putting others at risk. Apart from the one boy who faced another board hearing, that was the end of the matter, he said. “But it’s not the end of it of course in terms of us looking at how to work on the wider issue of boys making good decisions and what we can do to improve resilience in making choices - whether it’s drugs or cars or girls, or whatever,” Mr O’Shea said. He said boys and girls today were taking more risks without thinking through the consequences. “It’s an ongoing issue and we know a blanket, punitive punishments system is not going to work.
Seattle OK’d similar pot initiative
Denver Post - Oct 31, 2007
” To find out how the law works, Denver can look to Seattle, where an 11- member panel began reviewing marijuana incidents in 2003 to see whether police and prosecutors were pursuing cases against adults who possessed small amounts of marijuana. Seattle City Attorney Thomas Carr, who says he is required to sit on the panel, says he hopes Denver doesn’t pass the initiative. “The panel is slanted toward proponents of the law,” Carr said. “It does not work all that well… “The law does not tell police to ignore state or federal law,” he said. “It simply tells them where on the schedule of priorities these arrests fall. ” Although the committee cannot agree on why the numbers of marijuana arrests and prosecutions are down in Seattle, city officials have sent a letter to Denver endorsing the law as safe, effective and inexpensive. The Seattle group also found no evidence of an increase in marijuana use among young people, crime or adverse effects on public health. Lindy Eichenbaum Lent, spokeswoman for Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, said that marijuana-possession cases already are a low law-enforcement priority. “It isn’t something police specifically target for enforcement or to which they deploy significant resources,” she wrote in an e-mail. “Generally, when a person is charged with possession of less than an ounce of marijuana - as the state law requires - it is because the marijuana was uncovered by police during the course of investigating another crime.
Naples Park couple charged with marijuana trafficking
Naples Daily News - Naples Daily News (subscription) - Oct 31, 2007
Monday and charged with trafficking more than 25 pounds of marijuana, marijuana possession and possession of narcotic paraphernalia, reports show. Deputies say they received the package of marijuana addressed to a home at 623 102nd Ave. that had been intercepted by a law enforcement agency. Investigators delivered the package to the address and watched James Withrow pick it up, place it in a wheelbarrow and bring it into his home. Investigators entered the home, spoke with the couple about the package and found more marijuana and a pipe inside one of the bedrooms, reports show… Investigators entered the home, spoke with the couple about the package and found more marijuana and a pipe inside one of the bedrooms, reports show. Both Withrows were charged with trafficking. Jodie Withrow was also charged with having the additional marijuana and pipe, reports show.
Students caught with marijuana sent to judicial board
Arkansas Traveler - Arkansas Traveler (subscription) - Oct 31, 2007
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Local: Lots of marijuana found in pickup | marijuana, police, guevara…
Brownsville Herald - Oct 31, 2007
of marijuana in truck Comments 0 | Recommend 0 October 31, 2007 - 1:43PM. Juan Antonio Guevara was charged Tuesday with possession of marijuana after he cooperated with police detectives and claimed ownership of the massive pot stash, Brownsville police spokesman Eddie Garcia said. The marijuana was found Friday in the bed of a 1996 Chevrolet pickup that was parked in an alley at 138 E. Guevara’s bond was set at $15,000… Juan Antonio Guevara was charged Tuesday with possession of marijuana after he cooperated with police detectives and claimed ownership of the massive pot stash, Brownsville police spokesman Eddie Garcia said. The marijuana was found Friday in the bed of a 1996 Chevrolet pickup that was parked in an alley at 138 E. Guevara’s bond was set at $15,000.
BRIEF: Police find 319 lbs. of marijuana in truck.
Free with registration - Brownsville Herald - AccessMyLibrary.com - Oct 31, 2007
–> COPYRIGHT 2007 The Brownsville Herald Byline: Jose Borjon Oct. 31–A 22-year-old Brownsville man was arrested Tuesday on charges of possessing 319 pounds of mari-juana, found by police detectives late last week in the city’s downtown area. Juan Antonio Guevara was charged Tuesday with possession of marijuana after he cooperated with police detectives and claimed.