Google Earth leads to Pot Bust

[kinetic]

Yup, dude was turned in by a tip and had his grow in neat little rows tsk tsk.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/21/curtis-w-croft_n_4138392.html
GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Police say the view from space helped them bust a medical marijuana garden with too many plants in Southern Oregon.
The Grants Pass Daily Courier reports (http://bit.ly/H6KD3A ) authorities received a tip that 50-year-old Curtis W. Croft was bragging about all the pot he was growing on his property outside Grants Pass. Investigators went to Google Earth to find out what they could see.
Authorities say online satellite images taken in June showed dozens of plants in neat rows, so the Rogue Area Drug Enforcement Team sent up an aircraft for a closer look and checked state medical marijuana records.
They showed Croft was registered to grow for five people, which amounts to 30 mature plants. Authorities say a police raid in September seized 94 plants.
Croft was arraigned on drug charges last week and released

 

[see4]

Well, 94 plants is just greedy. He deserves it.

It's too late, technology has won. There is no turning back, our lives are on camera.

 

[gioua]

"with too many plants"

allowed 30 had 94... the reason to grow as large as you can!

 

[gioua]

Well, 94 plants is just greedy. He deserves it.

It's too late, technology has won. There is no turning back, our lives are on camera.

^watched See4 type that via google earth

 

[hydrogreen65]

Technology didn't get him popped. His big mouth did.

 

[bass1014]

karma will bite you in the ass every time..

 

[Bombur]

I bet in ten years privacy will be a thing of the past...

 

[Trousers]

Curtis W. Croft was bragging about all the pot he was growing on his property outside Grants Pass.

Google Earth did not get him busted, greed and pride did.

 

[slowbus]

I just bid a job from google earth,lol

 

[DeeTee]

Ah the wonders of technology, unfortunately his big mouth was his demize, feel sorry for him but how stupid can one be.

 

[Sunbiz1]

I just bid a job from google earth,lol

They are one of my favorite sites for...err...finding potential sites.

 

[ebgood]

I look at mty house on ggl earth and it shows a pic from 4 years ago. pretty sure it wasnt google that got him popped

 

[rowlman]

I look at mty house on ggl earth and it shows a pic from 4 years ago. pretty sure it wasnt google that got him popped

I checked out my place...they got me at about 6 months back. I can tell by the car in the drive. But seeing plants from 6 months back seems like a stretch.

 

[racerboy71]

I look at mty house on ggl earth and it shows a pic from 4 years ago. pretty sure it wasnt google that got him popped

according to google earth, my yard must be pet cemetery, as my old dog is back from the dead..

 

[hempyninja309]

Damn I better hide my coca plants and anti aircraft guns in the barn huh????

 

[kinetic]

The house I looked at over the weekend can't be seen overhead. All there are is treetops. Now if they update over the winter that would be a different story. lol

 

[Red1966]

Does 94 plants = more than 50 MATURE plants? I see a legal defense here.

 

[UncleBuck]

Does 94 plants = more than 50 MATURE plants? I see a legal defense here.

in our state, anything above 12'' x 12'' is considered mature.

if he had 5 patients total, he had room for 90 of those small plants, but they'd have to be under the mentioned size and not flowering.

 

[UncleBuck]

 

[rowlman]

Maybe this for the garden.