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Maine: Hundreds Of Marijuana Plants Stolen From Police

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 13, 2010 Growing, News

It’s the feel-good story of the day. About 750 marijuana plants were stolen from a Farmington, Maine law enforcement storage building overnight last week. The storage facility is only half a mile from the police station.

Farmington police officers discovered the break-in Wednesday at 9:30 a.m., according to Police Chief Jack Peck, reports David Robinson of the Central Maine Morning Sentinel.

An overhead garage door had been “pried open” and about three-quarters of the 1,000 marijuana plants seized earlier on Tuesday in a northern Franklin County drug raid and stored in facility that night, were gone gone gone, according to Peck.

Rhode Island Landlord Protests Marijuana-Growing Tenant

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 10, 2010 Growing, Medical

ABC 6

Landlord Melodye Broadley put up this sheet announcing her tenant is growing medical marijuana because she was upset about it.

A Rhode Island landlord claims she’s worried about a medical marijuana-growing tenant’s garden being a fire hazard — although it passed a fire department inspection. And she claims to be worried about a robbery — so she put up signs announcing the presence of marijuana in the building.

Landlord Melodye Broadley’s dispute with a marijuana-growing tenant in her building went public for a few hours Thursday, when she papered the Pawtucket property with signs complaining about Rhode Island’s medical marijuana law.

Broadley claimed she supported the idea of the state allowing the use of marijuana to treat certain medical conditions, reports John Hill of The Providence Journal. But she claims the act that established the medical marijuana program “tramples” on the rights of building owners where the cannabis is grown.

Bob Marley’s Daughter Pleads Guilty To Growing Marijuana

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 8, 2010 Culture, Growing, News

Photo: Makeda Marley’s MySpace

Bob Marley’s daughter Makeda pleaded guilty to growing marijuana in her home. Sentencing is October 10

The youngest child of reggae icon Bob Marley has admitted she grew marijuana in her Philadelphia-area home.

Makeda Jahnesta Marley, 29, pleased guilty Tuesday to having “nearly a dozen” large marijuana plants inside her home in Cain, Pa., about 30 minutes west of Philadelphia, reports the West Chester Daily Local News.

Marley was arrested in 2008 after police claimed they found her removing plants from her basement when officers arrived on a domestic dispute call.

Marley told the court at a February hearing that she had spent all the money from a trust fund she got from her father’s estate when she turned 18.

Makeda was born just three weeks after her legendary father died in 1981. She was the youngest of Bob’s 13 acknowledged children.

Last year, Marley marketed a “Liv Luv” line of clothing, with hoodies and t-shirts marked with the Liv Luv logo.

Sentencing is scheduled for October 10. Thomas Schindler, Marley’s attorney, said he will seek probation.

Army Vet, 80, Busted In Pot Raid; Had Given Names To Plants

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 6, 2010 Growing, News

Photo: Winona Daily News

An 80-year-old Minnesota man is facing felony charges after a marijuana raid, with police claiming he is the leader of a what they called a “large-scale grow operation.”

Welcome to the world of American drug enforcement, where an old man tending a few plants — at least some of which he had apparently given names — passes through the Drug War looking glass and becomes magically transformed into a major grow-op.

Acting on a tip from a confidential informant, police raided a location just south of Winona, Minn., near a family campground on August 24. They say they found an outdoor greenhouse, three firearms, and Army discharge papers dated from 1953 belonging to the man, reported Leif Knutson at My Fox 9.

The elderly suspect, Donald John Everding, had “several” cannabis plants more than eight feet tall as part of an “elaborate” grow operation, police said, reports Matt Christensen at the Winona Daily News. (Hey, you ever notice how, with the cops, grow-ops are seemingly always either “elaborate” and “sophisticated” or “dangerously primitive”?)

Pennsylvania Cop Waters Marijuana Plant; Forced To Quit

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 1, 2010 Growing, News

Photo: Ross Township Police Department

Motorcycle cop Richard White served for 30 years — then was canned for watering a two-foot-tall marijuana plant.

A 30-year veteran police officer claimed Tuesday his “curiosity” over a two-foot-tall marijuana plant he “found and watered” caused his career to go up in smoke.

Richard D. White, 58, of Shaler, Pa., said he had no idea how fellow police found out about his little buddy, and said he was told to resign after a meeting with Ross, Pa., Police Chief Ralph C. Freedman on August 23, reports Bill Vidonic of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

“I do regret it,” White said outside his home. “I should have just kicked it over right away.”

White, a motorcycle patrol traffic cop, said he found the plant while on duty about a month ago as he was urinating in a wooded area off Cemetery Lane.

White said he watered the plant once (not by urinating on it), again while on duty, but claimed he “didn’t have any plans” for the illegal little plant.

Nation’s Largest Indoor Pot Grow Proposed For Chico, CA

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on August 31, 2010 Growing, News

Photo: RCMP

A Los Angeles-based company is proposing a 600,000-square-foot indoor hydroponic medical marijuana grow that would be the largest in the United States.

The proposed grow would be located in one of the largest vacant buildings in Chico, California, located at Chico Municipal Airport Industrial Park, once occupied by clothing distributor Koret, reports Toni Scott of the MediaNews Group.

The property is being eyed by Plant Properties Management, LLC, which has hopes of creating a business model unparalleled in the medical marijuana industry.

N.M. Wants To Charge $1,000 For Pot Growing License; 7% Tax

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on August 31, 2010 Dispensaries, Growing

Photo: RolledTooTight

The New Mexico Department of Health is asking for public input on proposals for changing the state’s state-licensed medical marijuana program, including ways to make the program pay for itself and to make it more “tightly regulated.”

One of the proposals would levy a 7 percent tax on annual gross receipts of the nonprofit organizations that cultivate medical marijuana in the state, reports Marjorie Childress at the The New Mexico Independent. The reason the producers don’t already pass gross receipts tax is because they are, by law, operated as nonprofits.

The department is also looking at increasing the producers’ application fee from $100 to $1,000.

Sure, I’m A Cop… Give Me All Your Marijuana

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on August 30, 2010 Growing, News

Photo: xiongdudu

Man Posing As Police Officer Seizes 12 Pot Plants, $500, Gun

Fake, fake, fake the police?

A Michigan man told police a suspect posing as a police officer made off with his marijuana plants, a gun, and $500 at about 2 p.m. on Friday, according to police reports.

The victim told police he saw two vehicles pull up to his home in Flint, Mich., reports Laura Misjack at The Flint Journal.

A 65-year-old man first knocked and asked to see a woman who didn’t live there. The victim said he told him the woman didn’t live there and shut the door.

Then the man knocked again, this time claiming to be a police officer.

Man Barricades Self In House After Cops Ask About Marijuana

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on August 27, 2010 Growing, News

Photo: ENEWSPF

Here’s a case study in how not to react to questioning. A man barricaded himself in his home after Kentucky State Police stopped by to “ask him a few questions” about growing marijuana, police said.

Deputies and state troopers working on a marijuana eradication team said they stopped by the home of Brian Marrone, 36, of Burlington, Ky., just after 2 p.m. on Thursday to ask about the possibility of pot plants being spotted on his property, reports WLWT.

At first, nobody answered the door, until a woman came out of the home and told them a man was inside threatening his own life, according to Tom Scheben, spokesman for the Boone County Sheriff’s Department, reports WCPO.

NYC Firefighter Convicted Of Running Huge Marijuana Farm

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on August 26, 2010 Growing, News

Photo: Roca/NY Daily News

NYC firefighter Patrick Murray leaves court earlier this year.

A jury convicted a New York City firefighter on Wednesday of running a huge marijuana farm in the basement of a house in Queens owned by a fellow fireman.

“I’m in shock,” Patrick Murray told his lawyer after the guilty verdict came in Wednesday night, three hours into jury deliberations, reports John Marzulli of the N.Y. Daily News.

“We’re incredibly disappointed, and we will file an appeal,” vowed defense lawyer Lee Ginsberg.

Murray was a member of a drug gang called “The Master Race,” if rumors are to be believed. The former hero faces a minimum of five years in prison on the marijuana charges.

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