Shit + Fan = Cops + Grow OP

pataloc

Member
This is being written to share my experience with growing and how easy shit can hit the fan.

Me n the wife are kinda young, me mid twentys her early twentys. She has been a good girl all her life and I am a felon thats spent considerable time in jail and at this time of the incident on parole(I dont wish to go back lol). You see why this is relavent shortly, were both medical marijuana patients.

So in 2009 on Febuary 14, Valientes Day, around 2 pm there comes a knock on my door. I look thru my peep hole to see a police officer @ my door. This isnt the first time, my next door neighbor is a crazy bitch n likes to call them even after being threated with eviction from our landlord, but thats anthor crazy story in itself. Me being the felon I am, and not telling my PO where I really lived, though knowning we were 100% legal, I still feared the police.

Quickly I came to my wife and asked her to face the police, I know im a coward but if your a felon on parole in a aparment full of weed you understand. And being on parole and on our lease means if the cop knows I live there, they can enter and search without any reason at all. Being the wonderfull (sometimes) wife she is she came to the door as I retreated back. I have drilled it in her brain to say all the right things if this day came, as some of you know even growing legally still carrys risks, say the wrong thing and find yourself in the same place as those that dont grow legally.

So, she opens the door and says hello and asks how she can help him?

Officer says, "Someone called and said they havent seen anyone leaving the apratment in a few days, smelt something like dead bodys coming from our apartment." (we have excellent smell control, not what ur tinkn)

No Fucking joke. So Wife says, "Well were fine I dont know why anyone would think that."

Officer, "Well can I come in and make sure everything is ok?"

Wife, "No you can not, were fine thank you very much."

She knows our rights, no warrent, no visable crime means he has no fucking right to enter my space. She attempts to say thanks ask if she can help him any other way and after he says no, she tries to close the door in his face as is her legal right.

He puts his foot in the door.

He explains that he must see that everyone is ok, and if she didnt allow him to enter he would arrest her. She says, "For what?" and this really seemed to make him snap.

At this point he just begins to intimadate her and eventually knowing we have nothing to hide allows him to enter and informs him she and I are Medical Marijuana patients and have a legal grow going. So, he hand cuffs her. Next they go to my room wich I was in, knock on the door and kick it open within a second WITH guns drawn, real CHIPS shit.. (wasnt locked or even fully closed)

So to shorten up they seperated us and started to throw a barriage of questions at us meant to make us incriminate ourselves in something illegal. Then after about 45 minutes of games they took us out of our apartment and put us in patrol cars, in handcuffs, directly infront of our apartment complex.

I asked multiple times if I was being arrested or detained, I was informed im under arrest but to quote in exact words "were just not sure what your under arrest for." After 20 more minutes, finally someone informed me that they must wait to get a investigator to come and determine what our charges were. Being pretty experienced I just kept my mouth shut and waited.
Well 30-45 minutes later some black man shows up dressed like a detective and walks up the stairs and into my apartment, after five minutes he is coming out shaking his head but I cant hear from where im at.

Next thing you know, 1 hour later(sat in car while they were trying to find a way to take me to jail), yes this really took almost three hours, im in my room infront of my 20 Beautiful OG Kush plants 1 WEEK from harvest talking to the head of the Sherrif Station of my city about how my grow is LEGAL! He even gives me his cell phone number and a case number to give any cop if I have anthor similar problem.

Ok, That part was fucking cool, I mean u should have seen there faces when they HAD to let us go, one cop even slammed his paperwork on the back of the car and exclaimed "FUCK! I really thought we had a bust." The satisfaction I felt was incredible. But that is besides the fact, my rights were completly violated (well wifes since I didnt have ne), they risked our security, we could have had landlord trouble etc...

Dont think because you are ultra carefull something cant happen, plan for the unexpected. I keep a tight grow going, no smells, no weird lights, went to extreme measures to hide everything. It happened to me and can happen to you. Lukily, im legal and have changed my life enuf I dont have to worrie if a cop were to search my house, but if your still reading, you havent, and your story will have a diffrent ending.

PataLoco
 

Touchet

New Member
always close the door and lock it behind you when you go out to engage the officer. Whether it be a home or vehicle, always close and lock the door behind you. If you are on private property, at this point inform the officer that everything is fine and politely ask them to leave your property. If they don't leave right then, inform them again that they have been asked to leave private property and are now trespassing. If they refuse to leave, call 911 and tell the dispatcher the situation. All 911 calls are recorded. This forces the hand of the police, they will evacuate rather than face a lawsuit. Also any officer that is legally trespassed from your property faces the same consequences as any civilian. IE they are not allowed to return with out "proper cause" ie. a search warrant or 991 call from the residence. To the best of my knowledge those are the only reasons the officers can legally re occupy your property.

You and the wife did good. Hold your ground and your legal. Good stuff.
 

pataloc

Member
Thanks Guys thought I would share, to the above, your right but in california cops tend to bend the rules where they can. My advice, if your growing illegally, if a cop comes knocking, talk thru the window, or do what above said, comeout and lock the door behind you.

If there knocking they DONT have a warrent, they would be kicking your door down. Determine if they are trying to get access to your house because they suspect your growning (this really happens, watch "Never Get Busted Again"), if you suspect it, get rid of everything and move.
 

fishing420stoner

Active Member
damn man thats great but go call a lawyer! the ONLY WAY cops are gonna start treat MJ different and more relaxed is by seeing what happened in your case. Im 100 percent serious go on norml and find a lawyer to talk to you, even do it pro bono?. stand up for yourself( or have your old lady is she has a clean record, im a felon too).

IMO
 

Touchet

New Member
I hear about people getting busted or almost busted all the time. Having been there and done that I learned something from the cops, video tape everything. I have CCDR system at my place as well do a lot of my friends. A very close friend of ours, medical grower in Michigan had about a dozen other growers over for a co-op meeting. Needless to say it was also a big giant show and tell meeting ;) Well one of them was being watched and led the cops to my friends house. They called back up after seeing the cars and smelling the dank rolling out the house. Cops even managed to drum up some lousy warrant at 11pm to kick his door in. Rob was arrested with over 14 lbs in the house and 10 plants. He was released five hours later when his pre paid lawyer watched the video with a judge and the Oakland County prosecutor of them entering the home, the third man in holding the warrant. Illegal entry. Invalid execution of search warrant service procedure.

Thanks, please play again.


Cost of freedom:

closed circuit camera system $400
new front door $100
pre paid legal service $140
cops caught not following the rules as its often pointed out that they don't $priceless
 

Boyz N Da Hood

Well-Known Member
omg yo i fuckin hate cops sooo damn much they were all fuckin pussys dat used 2 get picked on when they were jits and now that they got a badge they wanna act hard.. fuck them and their badge without it they aint shit.. lol my bad yo i just hate da shit they do and get away with
 

Nitegazer

Well-Known Member
Great post and a rep for ya'. I'm just a hobby gardener, but in a state where growing ain't legal. This woke me up to take some precautions.
 

Mountainfarmer

Well-Known Member
Be glad it was the cops that came and not someone else who OBVIOUSLY smelled the pot from outside. Another thing, why do you feel the need to mention that the detective was "some black guy dressed like a cop?" Why can't he just be a cop or detective? If this DT were a white man there would most likely be no mention of race. Your sloppiness is appalling.
 

pataloc

Member
Be glad it was the cops that came and not someone else who OBVIOUSLY smelled the pot from outside. Another thing, why do you feel the need to mention that the detective was "some black guy dressed like a cop?" Why can't he just be a cop or detective? If this DT were a white man there would most likely be no mention of race. Your sloppiness is appalling.
Well if you want me to spell it out, I dont like black people. So be offensed, some black people are very good people, but in my experience the majority I have been around (jail/babys moma/life/2 ex girlfriends family) I find most to be verbally and visually offensive. My thoughts are, if I have gaven many blacks the chance, and in MOST cases they were offensive, then I should not subject myself to them for YOUR benefit to thik im not a rascist. Call it what u want, I wouldnt want to hurt any1 black, and I dont wish bad toward them, but you sure as fuck wont catch on in my house.

Obviously you didnt read the part when the cop said about the smell I put " (We have excellent smell control.) " And I guess you didnt read that im carefull, my wife and I smoke in the grow area and there are very large CFM fans sucking the smoke thru giant scrubbers on its way out.

No worries friend, as I said we are very carefull, and even though im all legal, I would never be so rude as to offend my neighbors with any smells or noises.
 

infdjedi

Well-Known Member
The only thing you did wrong was eventually let the cop in. If you did not let them in none of that would have happend.
 
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