Trucker suing over cargo: two tons boxed marijuana
The News Review:
- Trucker suing over cargo: two tons boxed marijuana
- Authorities find 100 pounds of marijuana at northwest Modesto home
- Teacher Arrested for Growing Marijuana
- Couple Returns To Find Home Converted Into Marijuana Grow House
- Nine arrested in three Hagerstown drug raids
- /REPEAT — Hamilton grow op assets forfeited/
- Suspects in Unicoi’s largest drug bust plead guilty to misdemeanor…
Trucker suing over cargo: two tons boxed marijuana
Greensboro News and Record – Greensboro News Record – Mar 21, 2008
com staff-generated content Trucker suing over cargo: two tons boxed marijuana By Jennifer FernandezStaff Writer Friday, Mar. 21, 2008 3:00 am GREENSBORO — Truck driver Wilson Tussey III says he spent seven days in a Texas jail in 2006 for picking up cargo labeled Styrofoam cups. Turns out he was hauling nearly 4,000 pounds — that’s 2 tons — of marijuana. Not sure how big that is? Picture two Volkswagen Beetles. Or a great white shark. The charges against Tussey were later dropped, pending further investigation, according to federal court records. Tussey is now suing Greensboro-based Cox Motor Express and Schneider National and Schneider National Carriers of Green Bay, Wis.
Authorities find 100 pounds of marijuana at northwest Modesto home
Modesto Bee – Mar 21, 2008
comp –> Drug task force agents seized 100 pounds of marijuana this morning after they served a search warrant at a northwest Modesto home, police reported. Agents from Stanislaus Drug Enforcement Agency, High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area and California Multi-Jurisdictional Methamphetamine Enforcement Team served the search warrant at a home in the 4200 block of Eldenberry Court, just south of Pelandale Avenue. The agents found the marijuana along with a shotgun and a handgun. Police said the marijuana has a street value of $300,000. Adriana Pacheco, 26, of Modesto, was in the home with her children at the time the search warrant was served. Police said Pacheco was arrested on suspicion of possession of marijuana for sales and child endangerment.
Teacher Arrested for Growing Marijuana
First Coast News – Mar 21, 2008
When they raided Krug’s home on Lee Street in St. Augustine they found 66 marijuana plants, a pound of processed marijuana and $6,000 cash. Investigators say the drugs have a street value of $70,000. Krug teaches at Bartram Trail High School. He is charged with growing marijuana, maintaining a drug dwelling and possession of drug paraphernalia. ©2008 First Coast News. All rights reserved.
Couple Returns To Find Home Converted Into Marijuana Grow House
First Coast News – Mar 21, 2008
The couple says walls were ripped out in their home and their belongings were gone. They were gone because a job out of state offered them the chance to avoid foreclosure on the house. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is investigating. ©2008 Associated Press.
Nine arrested in three Hagerstown drug raids
Hagerstown Morning Herald – Mar 21, 2008
in Hagerstown, was charged with one count each of possession of cocaine, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. · Joseph Brooks Clark, age unavailable, of 457 Mitchell Ave. in Hagerstown, was charged with one count each of possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. · Nathaniel Lee Lane, 41, of 274 Joshua Drive, Apt.
/REPEAT — Hamilton grow op assets forfeited/
Canada NewsWire – Canada NewsWire (press release) – Mar 21, 2008
The proceeds of civil forfeitures are used to compensate the victims of
the unlawful activity that gave rise to the forfeiture. They are also used for
grants to support initiatives that help prevent victimization. QUOTES
“Another marijuana grow op is permanently out of business. Our innovative
civil forfeiture law takes the profit out of unlawful activity,” said Attorney
General Chris Bentley. “In Ontario, unlawful activity doesn’t pay. Instead, our government will
use the forfeited proceeds to support victims,” said Ted McMeekin, MPP
Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale. “Grow ops are not welcome in our neighbourhoods… “Grow ops are not welcome in our neighbourhoods. The Attorney General is
using civil forfeiture law to help protect our community,” said Sophia
Aggelonitis, MPP Hamilton Mountain. “This forfeiture sends a strong message that marijuana grow operations
will not be tolerated in our community. We will use every civil and criminal
law tool available to us to shut these operations down,” said Hamilton Police
Service Chief Brian Mullan. An additional
$11. 6 million in property is frozen pending the completion of civil
forfeiture proceedings.
Suspects in Unicoi’s largest drug bust plead guilty to misdemeanor…
Kingsport Times News – Mar 21, 2008
On Thursday, Donald Deas, 56, 200 Willis Cove Road, pleaded guilty Thursday to simple possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia and was placed on probation for 11 months and 29 days. His case is eligible for expungement. Charges of possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms, manufacturing marijuana and casual exchange were dismissed. In January, Robert C. Welker, 55, Julian, N. , pleaded guilty to simple possession of marijuana, which was reduced from possession of marijuana for resale, and was placed on probation for 11 months and 29 days… Deas was growing marijuana for his own use,