leaddraft
Active member
Shot/killed by NC/Raliegh Sherriff Deptuies..
Was a memember, of Texans for Medicinal Mary J.
***By Thornton's telling, he was a cancer survivor who turned to marijuana to ease his crippling chronic pain. In an essay posted on a Web site "Texans for Medical Marijuana," a grassroots organization that lobbied for legalizing the drug for pain management, Thornton described his motivations for growing pot and his mounting legal woes.
"I have provided marijuana for other cancer patients over the years and have literally saved the lives of many people," Thornton said. He went on to complain about his imminent prison term and how it might undermine his battle with cancer.****
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Unsuspecting Wake County officers stumbled upon Thornton's hiding place Friday during a drug raid that left the 45-year-old federal fugitive dead. A sheriff's deputy took a bullet in the leg; he was recuperating at home Saturday.
A tip led Wake County Alcoholic Beverage Control investigators to Thornton's North Raleigh home looking for marijuana plants, said Wake ABC Chief Lew Nuckles. Investigators thought the mysterious man who rented the home at 5401 Alpine Drive was a kingpin of some moderate-level pot manufacturing ring. On Saturday, they found more than two dozen plants inside, Nuckles said.
Investigators didn't know their raid would surprise a wanted man. They knew next to nothing about him. No job, no friends, no family. They'd been told he went by the name "Scott Monaco," but Nuckles couldn't trace that to any documents like a driver's license, property records or tax information.
"I was suspicious," Nuckles said of the two months of surveillance he and other officers performed on Alpine Drive. "It's like his house was shut up or something, completely different than any other house in the neighborhood. We hardly ever saw anyone coming or going."
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Full story
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/862909.html
Was a memember, of Texans for Medicinal Mary J.
***By Thornton's telling, he was a cancer survivor who turned to marijuana to ease his crippling chronic pain. In an essay posted on a Web site "Texans for Medical Marijuana," a grassroots organization that lobbied for legalizing the drug for pain management, Thornton described his motivations for growing pot and his mounting legal woes.
"I have provided marijuana for other cancer patients over the years and have literally saved the lives of many people," Thornton said. He went on to complain about his imminent prison term and how it might undermine his battle with cancer.****
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Unsuspecting Wake County officers stumbled upon Thornton's hiding place Friday during a drug raid that left the 45-year-old federal fugitive dead. A sheriff's deputy took a bullet in the leg; he was recuperating at home Saturday.
A tip led Wake County Alcoholic Beverage Control investigators to Thornton's North Raleigh home looking for marijuana plants, said Wake ABC Chief Lew Nuckles. Investigators thought the mysterious man who rented the home at 5401 Alpine Drive was a kingpin of some moderate-level pot manufacturing ring. On Saturday, they found more than two dozen plants inside, Nuckles said.
Investigators didn't know their raid would surprise a wanted man. They knew next to nothing about him. No job, no friends, no family. They'd been told he went by the name "Scott Monaco," but Nuckles couldn't trace that to any documents like a driver's license, property records or tax information.
"I was suspicious," Nuckles said of the two months of surveillance he and other officers performed on Alpine Drive. "It's like his house was shut up or something, completely different than any other house in the neighborhood. We hardly ever saw anyone coming or going."
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Full story
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/862909.html
