Tinley Park (Chicago area) area family arrested in $1M pot bust

[fireburner23]

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/12/tinley-park-area-family-arrested-after-1m-pot-bust.html

Pretty nice setup if you ask me.

"Sheriff's detectives say they began investigating the family earlier this month after stopping a package containing marijuana buds to the home"? What does that mean?

 

[jm420]

stupid fuck is all i can say.
I dont know abot a million either some where around 50k I would guess

 

[wanderer]

LOL, jm420!

LEO always uses the value per gram or joint sales price to maximize the importance of "the bust" ! I doubt the growers ever thought it was any more than what it was worth. Got to keep those Federal Funds coming in ya know!

Standard operating procedure for at least 50 years now.

 

[IE2KS_KUSH]

It said that they did a controlled delivery of a "package", I wonder what the fuck it was. I mean were they really that dumb, getting flowers shipped to them? Or was it something else?

 

[Loud Pack]

If they are growing a supposed $1 million worth of buds in the basement, why are they getting product small enough to fit in a box ($20 thousand at the most) shipped to the million dollar grow-op? You are right, it doesn't make any sense.

 

[Bob Smith]

They were smart enough to only have 97 plants.

That guy on the left looks like a meth addict.

 

[Yes4Prop215]

lol this was already in another thread....the 1 million dollar bust was probably only generating 50k a year....they had like 3 1k lights HAH..the cops are such lame fucking jokes.

but these growers are dumb as hell for getting buds shipped to a grow house...not too bright.

 

[forty]

$4409...

 

[SOTF420]

to the 97 plants

You know that number is no accident!

 

[trichrider]

yep, that bunch had a time counting to that number...several tries.

 

[Gooey]

pipes in plain site at the grow??? shipping herb to the spot? asking for it? sorry as it is a unjust law but respect the enemy...

 

[opt1c]

they all posted bail; guess they were doing one thing right

 

[fireburner23]

lol this was already in another thread....the 1 million dollar bust was probably only generating 50k a year....they had like 3 1k lights HAH..the cops are such lame fucking jokes.

but these growers are dumb as hell for getting buds shipped to a grow house...not too bright.

I just don't understand why you have to have buds shipped to your house in the first place?!

Whatever happened to going to your buddies house for an 8th?

 

[David762]

Package was a "return" from dissatisfied customer?

Package was a "return" from dissatisfied customer?

If they are growing a supposed $1 million worth of buds in the basement, why are they getting product small enough to fit in a box ($20 thousand at the most) shipped to the million dollar grow-op? You are right, it doesn't make any sense.

But without an official RMA. LOL.

I cannot imagine anyone distributing from the same address as their grow-operation. Why would anyone know their grow-operation address? Why would they tell anyone their grow-operation address?
There's got to be more to this story ...

 

[LeenieBean]

they probably weren't getting "buds" but "seeds" at the house. who gets weed sent to a million dollar grow op and how does 97 plants turn into a million dollars? must have been some fine cultivation going on there!

 

[wanderer]

I cannot imagine anyone distributing from the same address as their grow-operation. Why would anyone know their grow-operation address? Why would they tell anyone their grow-operation address?
There's got to be more to this story ...

You know in an ideal world I'd like to believe that too. Does "Elite Genetics" ring a bell? Sad but true story there!

 

[ijim]

$50,000 and $25,000 bond. I was reading a story today that a girl and her boyfriend beat and robbed a guy then she stab him in the chest and bragged about it. She was on probation for another assault. She was given a $10,000 bond. What is wrong with this picture? Just because she accidentally didn't kill the guy she is treated as a minor offender. Some people growing a home garden are treated as gangsters. Things have got to change.

 

[ballplayer 2]

Things will never change as long as LEO and their brainwashed (at best, nefarious at worst) media counterparts monopolize the conversation about canna. We as a grass roots organization are making progress, but obviously have a long, long way to go.

 

[BrewCityLegend]

They seized 2,960g worth 1 million dollars.... that's only $337.84 a gram! What a deal.

Sometimes I really think they don't have any sort of formula or criteria to value a bust... they probably just ask some guy to look at it all and guess what it's worth "...uhhh, I don't know, a million?"

 

[john:420]

wow 337.84 a gram!! is that it? hell i bet they was making all kinds of money at them prices!!!!