Remember the itty-bitty pot raid that Santa Ana PD carried out on July 31st? September 2nd was the arraignment for some 123 total marijuana misdemeanor violations. And so far it seems only one out of this smorgasbord of arrestees plead guilty and swallowed the $500 fine. That’s right folks. A large number of them waived their right to a speedy trial and are opting to fight the charges.
Meanwhile the judge is none too happy with the local prosecutors.

In May, we shared a Complete Colorado report featuring video evidence that Colorado drivers in Idaho were being pulled over for extremely minor infractions — at which point law enforcers would search their vehicles for marijuana.
Now, in a followup, Complete Colorado shares a new clip suggesting that vehicles with Washington license plates are also being pot-profiled as a pretext for weed rousts. Moreover, the state trooper in question says he pulled the driver over because his driving might have endangered a goat had it been walking along the highway — even though no goats were present. Details, images and the aforementioned video over at the Denver Westword.

Over the past several years, we’ve told you about alleged marijuana profiling — drivers of cars with Colorado plates being pulled over by troopers in other states for what are often extremely minor infractions as an excuse to search for cannabis.
A lot of these stops come to nothing — but every once in a while, cops hit the jackpot, as it were. Take this week’s arrest of Aurora’s Santiago Adame-Melchor and Anahit Conejo-Galicoa, who were allegedly caught with 99-plus pounds of weed. Westword has the full story.

Seattle police officer Randy Jokela apparently missed the memo that marijuana possession and use is now legal in Washington state, largely citizens people were sick of people like Jokela abusing his power.
This week, Seattle police Chief Kathleen O’Toole announced that Jokela was responsible for 80 percent of the 82 marijuana-related citations issued between January 1 and June 30 of this year – with 37 percent of those tickets going to blacks and about half going to the city’s homeless. To say he was still abusing his power is an understatement.