Million dollar MJ bust

[Guest 18340]

This shit makes me sick to my stomach. All becuase of a snitch.
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Video: Grow House Raids Find Marijuana Plants In Palm Bay Homes

$1 Million In Pot Plants Pulled From Palm Bay Homes

POSTED: 12:01 pm EDT June 26, 2007
UPDATED: 5:41 pm EDT June 26, 2007

PALM BAY, Fla. -- Investigators said they cleared out a Palm Bay home with a million dollars worth of marijuana and said it was just a drop in the bucket to a bigger operation.


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SLIDESHOW: Marijuana Plants Pulled From Homes
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Twenty warrants were served, from South Florida to Palm Bay, in a large-scale, statewide crackdown on grow houses.

The city of Palm Bay had already boarded up the garage of one home by Tuesday afternoon. The door had to be ripped out because it was rigged so no one would ever know what was going on inside and the amount of marijuana being grown.

After agents busted through a fake wall inside the unassuming, well-kept home, the marijuana could be smelled a block away. Inside, agents found more than 50 mature marijuana plants, some as tall as six feet, ready to be harvested and sold on the streets.

Federal drug enforcement agents raided 11 grow houses, spanning the sunshine state from Miami-Dade to Brevard County. Investigators said they are all part of one organized group growing and distributing marijuana across Florida

Agents couldn't say how many people total were arrested. Five were taken away in cuffs in Palm Bay alone, but the two Palm Bay homes raided weren't being used just to raise illegal crops.

"There are children at both places. We have contacted DCF," said Lt. Joe Eakins, Palm Bay Police Department.

Representatives from the Drug Enforcement Agency said they are finding larger and larger underground organizations growing marijuana, scattering their operations, and setting up sophisticated cookie-cutter greenhouses in unsuspecting neighborhoods.

Agents said drug dealers are finding it easier and cheaper than smuggling dope in from a foreign country.

The statewide operation came after a nine-month investigation stemming from a confidential informant.

Last week, DEA agents held a meeting in Altamonte Springs on grow houses in Florida. Florida now has the second highest number of indoor marijuana grow houses behind California.

In 2006, grow houses were found in 41 of Florida's 67 counties. That's more than 60 percent of the state. Agents talked abut putting together a task force that would track grow houses statewide.
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[Guest]

sure is f'd up shat.
seems to be happening alot in Florida.
i wonder where they got the seeds from,if they ordered them or just used bag seeds.
and if they did order them i wonder if they would say were from and how they got them.
or maybe they just used clones from someone..who knows i guess.

 

[ozzy]

AFAIK these are gangs (organizations) whose sole purpose is to grow and sell as much pot as they can, children or not, they just want to make $$$$$. Fuck them...they're not growing for the "culture" and they are making us look like criminals.

 

[Guest 18340]

I dont believe everything the media says, nor the cops. Ever hear of propaganda? What better way to scare everybody and justify spending all the $$$ to bust these people than to use the "G" word.
I live in Florida and the propaganda here is outta control. Just ask anybody who lives and grows here. Their are grow busts every single day down here, they cant all be gang related.
And I hate to break it to you but it dont mean shit to the pigs or the shitheads who demonize pot whether you grow for personal use or for financial gain, youre a criminal to them either way.

 

[teddybud]

its sad but i have to agree with ozzy... seeing as herb is usa's biggest cash crop people use it for the wrong reasons.. I still kinda feel bad for them though... gang related or not I still feel for a family being torn apart, its not right as far as I see it.

 

[Betty's Boy]

there is no way a million dollar's worth of weed there...even at 4000$ a pound you would need 250lbs. Underground organization's Aren't we all... Face it, it will always be us against them. - - Don't forget they have to prove it in court...take it to jury... Were alway's getting a black eye, there not trying to win a battle there trying to win a "WAR" piss's me off... it all boil's down to money...

 

[SilverSurfer_OG]

there is no way a million dollar's worth of weed there...even at 4000$ a pound you would need 250lbs. Underground organization's Aren't we all... Face it, it will always be us against them. - - Don't forget they have to prove it in court...take it to jury... Were alway's getting a black eye, there not trying to win a battle there trying to win a "WAR" piss's me off... it all boil's down to money...

A to the K homeboy

 

[Pops]

Seems that the cops know more about these everbearing ganja plants that produce a pound every 2 months than we growers do. If any of you Florida boys ever get one of these plants, sell us some clones. We all want 6 lb. a year plants here in Cali.

 

[idontgivenames]

AFAIK these are gangs (organizations) whose sole purpose is to grow and sell as much pot as they can, children or not, they just want to make $$$$$. Fuck them...they're not growing for the "culture" and they are making us look like criminals.

Unfortunatley, a good ammount of the weed that the everyday counter culture stoner buys - is some how related or grown by gangs. So yes, they are technically growing for the culture... to an extent.

 

[Maj.PotHead]

its sad but i have to agree with ozzy... seeing as herb is usa's biggest cash crop people use it for the wrong reasons.. I still kinda feel bad for them though... gang related or not I still feel for a family being torn apart, its not right as far as I see it.

lmao biggest cash crop isnt lying either most of the states canibis falls into the top 10 crops growen in that state and alot are in the top 5 crops for that state including texsas. i was cruising the normal web sits and checked out state by state the laws concerning canibis

Wyoming seems friendly towards canibis

Under the influence or use misdemeanor 90 days $100
3 oz or less misdemeanor 1 year $1,000
More than 3 oz felony 5 years $10,000
Within 500 feet of a school additional $500
Possible conditional probation or discharge for first offense.
Cultivation
Any amount misdemeanor 6 months $1,000
Sale
Any amount felony 10 years $10,000
To a minor at least three years younger than seller felony double penalty
Within 500 feet of a school felony 2 years MMS* $1,000
*Mandatory minimum sentence.
Miscellaneous (paraphernalia, license suspensions, drug tax stamps, etc...)
Subsequent offenses are subject to double the possible penalties.

heres wyoming's cash crops
http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=4574&wtm_view=crop10