DEA Busts Marijuana Growers, Blames Seattle Garden Suppliers
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Police and federal agents launched a series of raids April 23, 2008 on indoor marijuana growing operations they claim were connected to the owners of garden supply stores in Auburn and Tukwila and a mortgage company in Kent.
The U.S. attorney’s office said the owners of Greenhouse Garden Supply and Scitek Garden Supply were among 14 people indicted on trumped up charges.
Smugly self-important Drug Enforcement Agency officials claimed that in one of the homes raided, agents seized more than 300 marijuana plants and tens of thousands of dollars in cash. Of those “300 plants,” what do you bet that most or all of them were tiny sprouts or clones? Notice they didn’t show a single plant in the video footage.
According to court documents, the investigation, pathetically dubbed “Operation Green Reaper,” began in January 2007 and “determined” that the owners of the garden companies were helping people set up indoor marijuana grows, and even offered to help dispose of the plant byproducts that could not be sold to “drug users.”
Never mind the fact that they’re just looking for someone to blame in their doomed war on medical marijuana growers and users, and that any garden supply store owner or employee in his right mind wouldn’t come within 10 feet of anyone babbling about marijuana.
Officials darkly averred that the owner of Scitek Garden Supply placed ads for growing equipment in Vietnamese newspapers — horrors! I guess ethnic Vietnamese aren’t allowed to buy grow lights for tomatoes. Their misguided investigation “connected” the business to growing operations of more than 14,000 marijuana plants. Probably meaning that maybe they sold a few lights to some guy who grew the pot.
In one of the more absurd claims by authorities, surveillance of the business allegedly shows bags of marijuana plant stalks that were being disposed of for the growers. Hey, how do they know those weren’t tomato vines or corn stalks? And you have to ask yourself: What possible gain would a garden supply store obtain from disposing of hemp stalks for their customers?
Investigators claimed the business’ reported income over an 18-month period was very modest, but that the owner actually took in more than $900,000, mostly in cash. Whoa, guess those cop psychic powers are really working overtime. The indictment filed in federal court claims that more than $1.1 million was laundered through Scitek Garden Supply.
Investigators claimed the 19 homes where the actual growing operations were located were purchased through Jet City Mortgage, and authorities, apparently still drawing on their psychic powers, alleged the loan documents were falsified, and small businesses were bribed to falsely verify the employment of the home purchasers.
Hundreds of law enforcement officers happily feeding at the public trough of tax money were involved in serving 20 search warrants throughout the area on April 23. Scapegoats arrested made their initial court appearances in Seattle on flimsy drug and money laundering charges.
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When will the lies and bullshit end?
Just remember, folks: They’re spending YOUR tax dollars to pull these asinine capers and to tell these whoppers!
Don’t tase me, bro! I gotta call ‘em like I see ‘em.
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It is just a …
It is just a plant, which happens to be one of the best medicines on Earth, and it is illegal? It makes no sense at all. Legalize and get the word out!
Fuck the DEA!
the DEA!
Okay, EVERYONE …
Okay, EVERYONE listen up…this means you!
we can end prohibition tonight!
JURY NULLIFICATION!
VIVA LA REVOLUTION!
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i bet they do that all the time. buy a gallon and sell a half a gallon. it’s the new thing, everyones doing it.
why not they got …
why not they got all the money in the world might as well buy top end stuff.
Lets help end the …
Lets help end the DEA, and end the corruption
If your anyway …
If your anyway serious than you can seriously youself
people are starving …
people are starving to death in this country, and the DEA ageants are driving around burning gallons-to-the-mile in Hummers? they’re spending our money on macho-mobiles with heated seats…great
they’ll burn half …
they’ll burn half and turn around and sell the other half
Marijuana will be …
Marijuana will be illegal unitl people start donating money to the cause…we have to be able to throw money around like oil, pharmaceutical, alcohol, logging, tobacco, and many other companies do or marijuana will stay illegal.
Big companies in many different sectors stand to lose if marijuana and hemp were legal to grow and pocess in the U.S. so as long as we sit around “waiting” for leaglization we will not get it
dont be folled the …
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Potheads …
DEA!
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God Bless the …
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repost this if ur against the power
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hi im the DEA… …
hi im the DEA…give me all your buds, half im gonna burn in front of the news, the second half im gonna burn in a bong, and im going to send you to jail…
They probably …
They probably bought it from the drug money they stole from an honest hardworking drug dealer.
Thats not difficult …
Thats not difficult considering there has never been a recorded death “caused” by marijuana use.
my dads dieing on …
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i love ignorant people like you. not.
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What rock have you been living under.
Dude you have …
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The DEA is just a …
The DEA is just a government funded Terrorist Organization similar to the U.S. Military in Iraq.