“School Project” Lands Man In Jail
June 12th, 2009 by Rick
On Monday, an anonymous tip to the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office in Fort Pierce, FL, led to drug possession charges and an arrest of 26-year-old, Oulay Inthaphone.
Upon arriving to his home, the police, probably expecting to bust some sophisticated high level grow-op, asked if Inthaphone was growing marijuana. Inthaphone admitted that he had a plant that he was growing for a “school project”.
They also found actual use of marijuana by way of a pipe, blunts and stems in the living room, along with 12 Ecstasy pills found on a nightstand in his bedroom.
Let’s just hope he hadn’t popped a pill or two right before his trip to the county jail or it would might make for an odd night in lock-up.
FL House Raided, Marijuana Grow Op Found
May 12th, 2009 by Rick
A house in Lakeland, in the Tampa Bay region of Florida, was discovered to be running a marijuana grow op. What’s disturbing, is the way that it was “uncovered”.
An Electric Company employee had gone to the house on Friday in order to turn the electricity off for non payment of the bill. As the employee entered the premisis, he noticed a generator that was running in a backyard shed. When he returned on Monday, the generator was still running. He tried to speak with the owner about the generator but he refused to talk with him and ran inside the house.
The employee then called the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, who in turn could not reach anyone as well. A search warrant was obtained and after another unsuccessful attempt to communicate with anyone in the house, the SWAT team launched tear gas into the house and quickly raided.
Nobody was found within the home, but police did discover three bedrooms that had been converted into a “sophisticated marijuana grow operation.” No arrests have been made.
Like I said this story is disturbing on a few levels. What business is it of the electric company employee that a generator is being run? If the bill wasn’t paid, maybe the owners couldn’t afford it and decided to power their house through means that they can control?
What right and probable cause does law enforcement have to issue a warrant to search a citizen’s home, just because they can’t be contacted and they are running a generator? The entire operation was based on an assumption that illegal activity was being conducted.
It doesn’t matter if the Obama Administration and the U.S. Attorney General take a step back and look at the destructive drug policy that has been the status quo for decades, if local government and cowboy cops keep trampling on American citizens’ rights. The act of raiding a citizen’s house without any intel of the owners’ wrong doing is likened to the days of the Gestapo in Nazi Germany and if left unchecked, will destroy the very fabric of our Constitutional rights.
Vincent Van Gogh Loves Crack, We Swear
May 7th, 2009 by Erin
Vincent Van Gogh: Poor, earless artist by day, coke addict by night? No, not him. A different one.
On Monday, May 4th, 42-year old Vincent Vladimer Van Gogh of Delray Beach was sent to Palm Beach County Jail charged with possession of cocaine and driving with a suspended license, after Boynton Beach police officers pulled him over and found a suspended driver’s license and 2.6 grams of crack cocaine in his cup holder.
As badass as it would be to be born with a name like Vincent Van Gogh, he actually changed his given name of Vincent Rossman to the more illustrious one, after serving two years in prison for bailing the scene of a traffic homicide in the late 90s.
Delray Beach Van Gogh remained in county jail Tuesday night pending a $3,500 bond.
Mayor Crusades Against Baggy Pants
May 4th, 2009 by Russ
A Florida mayor, apparently nostalgic for Nazi Germany, has lobbied to criminalize the wearing of baggy pants in his town. Last year, Riviera Beach mayor, and assumed facsist, Thomas Masters, convinced 72% of his constituents to pass a town ordinance that fined baggy pants wearers to the tune of $150. Repeat offenders can earn larger fines and even mandatory jail sentences.
Riviera Beach officials consider baggy pants to be part of a culture associated with drug dealing and other criminal activity. Apparently local police have found it too difficult to effectively prosecute laws already in the books, so they have taken to locking up those citizens without pre-approved attire. An unusually sane Palm Beach judge has already ruled the ‘Saggy, Baggy Pants Law’ unconstitutional, but Mayor Masters isn’t giving up so easily.
Reports from his administration indicate that he is considering future proposals to criminalize slang speech, wearing crooked baseball caps, and driving while under the influence of 50 Cent.
Naples Man Eats Pot, Gets Caught
April 30th, 2009 by Rick
A 21-year old man was pulled over last Friday for running a red light in Naples, Florida. When the officer came up to the driver’s door, he noticed that the suspect was eating something and had what appeared to be weed, on his clothes. The officer pulled the suspect out of the car and found that the suspect was eating his marijuana stash.
The suspect, Carlos Mauricio Rodriguez, was then charged with marijuana possession and tampering with evidence. All together, 6.87 grams were recovered.
How can you be charged for tampering with something that you own before it becomes evidence? Odd.
Large Load Seized on 4/20 of All Days
April 22nd, 2009 by Rick
It’s 4/20. It’s morning, it’s hot, muggy — you’re down in Miami. You’re cruising along the Florida turnpike trying to get to a 4/20 event with important cargo. As you look at your rear view mirror, you see a piece of styrofoam from your truck fly out of the bed and hit another car. Just as you think, “I hope a cop didn’t see that,” the familiar red and blue lights flash. You pull over, nervously. The cop makes his walk towards the car and as soon as he nears the bed, out of the side view mirror you see his facial expression change as he smells the trees of marijuana you have.
Pop quiz hot shot: “Do you bail and run for your life? Or do you sit there, get arrested and face an easy decade in jail just because you were supposed to get to a 420 event with marijuana?” You bail.
Sound like a good 4/20 misadventure? It was. This actually happened.
Witnesses said it was an estimated $500,000 worth of marijuana was confiscated and placed in large black trash bags. Despite more law enforcement officers being called in, the driver of the truck escaped. Showing up to the 4/20 event without weed is a hell of a lot better than showing up to jail with drug charges.
Microwave Used as Ultimate Crack Tool
April 13th, 2009 by Russ
Spending long hours traveling back and forth to your local lab? Tired of lining up huge networks of hydroponics to get the grow houses running? Then, drop all that effort-intensive work and try some crack today! And all you need to start is a microwave oven. It’s the easy, breezy way to create your very own illegal narcotics.
According to the TCPalm, Javaris Kirk, of Fort Pierce, Florida, was arrested last week after allegedly admitting to making crack-cocaine with his microwave oven. Mr. Kirk later admitted that he was a convicted felon and, as such, felt a special bond with Martha Stewart.
Authorities searching his home also found five ecstasy tablets in his bathroom, a 9mm pistol with no serial, and a homemade tea cozy crafted out of extra table cloth. Jokes aside, don’t do crack.
Florida Wants to Get in on Some MMJ Action
April 10th, 2009 by Aaron
From the Golden State on to the Sunshine State, medical marijuana is roaring through the country with a furor. As you know, medical cannabis is legal in the state of California but the most populated state in the union is still the only state where it’s considered “legal”.
Now Florida is attempting to make it legal in 2010 as the People United for Medical Marijuana will be circulating a petition next year asking voters to pass a law that would allow patients to buy, grow, possess and obtain medical marijuana in a completely legal way.
Honestly, that’s one of the last states I would ever imagine legalizing pot for any reason. It is the south after all and the south doesn’t seem as hip to weed as the rest of the states, excluding the midwest. But hell, if Florida legalizes it, wouldn’t that be wonderful? We could have our Floridian pot brothers smoke a bowl with a juicy Florida orange for breakfast.
Here’s hoping Florida makes the right decision and that decision should be: Legalize it.
