Cannabis factory busted in drugs raid
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- Cannabis factory busted in drugs raid
- Temecula couple known for medical-marijuana activism arrested …
- Police locate marijuana operation (video)
- Luxury home used as a cannabis farm
- Local couple fined for marijuana possession
- California sees nearly 75000 marijuana arrests in 2007
Cannabis factory busted in drugs raid
Reading Evening Post, UK
The house in De Beauvoir Road was stormed by specialist Thames Valley Police officers from drugs unit Operation Falcon in conjunction with the East Reading Neighbourhood Police Team at 12. Drug dealers converted the modest terraced house just off Cemetery Junction to grow the Class C drugs, re-wiring the electrics to set up the high-powered hydroponic lamps to grow the plants. The loft had also been totally gutted to ventilate the house and a pipe had been installed to pump the strong smell of the plants away from the house.
Temecula couple known for medical-marijuana activism arrested …
Press-Enterprise, CA
Victor, 56, said Monday that he and his wife, both of whom suffer from debilitating health problems that prevent them from working, run a 10-member medicinal marijuana collective from their home. Victor was arrested Friday on suspicion of possession of concentrated cannabis, cultivation of more than 50 marijuana plants and possession of marijuana for sale, jail records show. He was booked into the Southwest Detention Center and released Saturday morning on $50,000 bail. Police served a search warrant on Palmetto Way about 5:30 p.
Police locate marijuana operation (video)
Zanesville Times Recorder, OH
Working late into the night Monday, deputies with the Muskingum County Sheriff’s Office, Perry County Sheriff’s Office and BCI took what they believed to be anywhere from 10,000 to 15,000 plants from property owned by American Electric Power (AEP) and state-owned land used for hunting. The operation was located about a mile in a section of secluded woods off Township Road 71A.
Luxury home used as a cannabis farm
Inverness Courier, UK
Luxury home used as a cannabis farm – The Inverness Courier. LANDLORDS are being urged to be vigilant after the discovery of a cannabis factory in a luxury four-bedroom home. Police swooped on the 300,000-plus house at the new Fisher Heights development at Balmakeith in Nairn after a tip-off to find its tenants had been growing cannabis plants. No arrests have been made and police are now hunting a man and woman of south-east Asian appearance who had been renting the house from the unsuspecting owner. The discovery of the cannabis factory comes as the Scottish Crime and Drugs Enforcement Agency (SCDEA) released figures yesterday showing it seized around 21 million worth of illegal drugs in the past year, 5. 1 million of which involved cannabis.
Local couple fined for marijuana possession
Sarnia Observer, Canada
Charles Somes, 31, and Stephanie Somes, 32, pleaded guilty to the June 6 possession of marijuana. Neither person had a criminal record and Justice Deborah Austin imposed fines of $400 for the man and $200 for the woman. During a traffic stop, an officer smelled the odour and asked about it. The woman pulled the remains of a marijuana cigarette out of a cigarette package.
California sees nearly 75000 marijuana arrests in 2007
Times-Standard, CA
”This has been going on for close to a century now and they’re clearly not eradicating or stopping anything. It just continues,” said Dale Gieringer, a spokesman for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. According to the state Department of Justice’s Criminal Justice Statistics Center, 74,119 felony and misdemeanor marijuana arrests were made in 2007, a jump of nearly 10,000 arrests from 2006, which saw 65,386. Between 2001 and 2006, the differences from year to year were much smaller.