Posted on 07/28/2017 11:48:41 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
Harte’s wife, Addie, bolted downstairs with the children. Their son put his hands up when he saw the guns. The family of four were eventually placed on a couch as police continued to search the property. The officers would only say they were searching for narcotics.
Addie had a thought: It’s because of the hydroponic garden, she told her husband, they are looking for pot.
Not only were the Hartes upstanding citizens with clean records, they were also both former Central Intelligence Agency officers. And they were not marijuana growers. Rather, the quick-trigger suspicion of law enforcement had snagged on — it would later turn out — tea leaves and a struggling tomato plant.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
[ Grow your tomatoes outside ]
Never carry more than 500 bucks in cash around at any given time.
Stand up and make an imbecile out of yourself.
Something like this happened a year ago in Texas - dumb cops rushing a house with a lot of tomato plants. Sheesh.
Or just get shot. Darwin in action.
The deep state always eats its own.
Prolly thought it tomacco like in The Simpsons.
Did they own a dog? First thing they do is shoot it.
Comes from IR snooping because pot growers also use UV lamps to grow in basements.
Boiled frog.
We are boiled frogs. Sad but true.
When I was into gardening on a more serious level, I had one of those lamps. Luckily, I was never raided.
[ The raid turned up no marijuana. Before leaving the Harte house, police would only say the family had been targeted and surveilled because marijuana “seeds and stems” had been found on the property. The police also suggested the couple’s son was smoking pot, and told the Hartes to take him to a pediatrician for a drug test. ]
I really just gotta wonder if an officer walked by their house in the middle of the night and dropped a small baggie of ONE stem and ONE seed on their front lawn the night before the raid... The another officer walks by and “finds” it on their property. This then gives them the “perfect excuse” to search a property even IF there is plenty of reasonable evidence to conclude the drugs came from outside of the property. I wouldn’t put it past them.
I knew someone who lived in a bad sub-urban neighborhood who would go out every morning and walk their lawn looking for dropped drugs because users would walk by and if a cop car was passing by their would toss their stash on their lawn because they had a picket link fence in the front yard. ( made it hard to see a stash tossed over it ). Because once the cops walking by saw a baggie and then raided his house because they had “found drugs on the property”, luckily he escaped having anything civil asset seized and the cops were not a-holes about it, but he called the cops if he found any baggies in the future. He got lucky, he finally moved cause he was sick of having to patrol his own yard every day.
This is why i loathe stupid laws like seat belt laws, the officer can always claim they didn’t see you wearing a seat belt as an excuse to pull you over then search your car.
We can’t. For the last two summers it’s been in the 40s at night until July. I don’t think we’re going to have any tomatoes at all this year.
[ Comes from IR snooping because pot growers also use UV lamps to grow in basements. ]
They also can use millimeter wave tech, microwaves, and even Soft X-rays from vans, drones, helicopters, and planes....
Add to the list of the blue lives that don’t matter.
<< Before leaving the Harte house, police would only say the family had been targeted and surveilled because marijuana “seeds and stems” had been found on the property. >>
Lying, dumb, corrupt, criminal swine. I hope the family sues the pants off
the city, county, and all officers involved.
“This week, the three judge panel — Carlos Lucero, Gregory Phillips and Nancy Moritz — ruled against the state, sending the case back to district court. The 100-page decision pushed back hard against the claim that police officers are immune from legal responsibility if they are just doing their jobs.”
An 81 year old woman who was growing a single marijuana plant in her yard was swatted this spring/early summer here in Massachusetts. What a ridiculous waste of time and money.
http://www.telegram.com/news/20161008/police-raid-81-year-old-womans-garden-to-take-out-1-pot-plant
I was wrong. This story is from 10/2016.
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