Here's a story about the police trying to take a grandmothers house because her grandkid was growing weed in the basement:
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/10/us/drug-case-may-cost-grandmother-her-home.html
Florence Hart, 72, could lose her home because, the authorities say, one of her grandchildren grew marijuana in her basement.
Contending that Mrs. Hart knew about the illegal plants and looked the other way, law-enforcement officials are trying to seize her $50,000 home as a drug-related asset and sell it at auction, with proceeds given to drug-enforcement agencies.
The law requires only that prosecutors show that Mrs. Hart probably knew that illegal plants were being grown in her house.
"The owner is responsible for the acts that occur in their residence, and the law will hold them accountable," the Spokane County prosecutor, Jim Sweetser, said.
Glancing around her cluttered living room, the silver-haired Mrs. Hart said: "I guess it's time for me to move. I don't know what to get rid of and what to keep."
Then she added, "Where am I going to live?"
Mrs. Hart has no criminal record and was not arrested when a regional drug task force raided the house on April 13.
Agents found 126 plants -- mostly behind a makeshift curtain and locked door -- a scale, special lights and packaging materials.
Investigators believe the operation netted $150,000 to $200,000 in the more than two years it was running.
One grandson, 25-year-old Michael Sears, took responsibility for the marijuana. He pleaded guilty to Federal drug charges and awaits sentencing. His brother, Aaron Sears, 24, was arrested but not charged.
Relatives said Mrs. Hart was an unwitting accomplice who was blinded by love for her grandchildren.
"She didn't know what was going on," said her son, Wes Hart of Glendale, Ariz. "Her basement is always full of people's junk."
But investigators disputed that conclusion, saying that the basement also contained a washing machine and a bucket of dried marijuana on a shelf next to Mrs. Hart's home-canned jams.
They also noted that Mrs. Hart twice bailed out Aaron Sears after arrests on charges of marijuana cultivation.
Mrs. Hart, a retired laundry worker who has cataracts and poor hearing, is divorced. In addition to canning her own jam, she combs garage sales for blue glassware and keeps flower boxes on her porch. The walls of her home are lined with knickknacks, framed photographs and painted china plates.
She paid off the mortgage on her home of 33 years at $60 per month. Three dogs keep her company.
The house represents her life savings, she said. Since retiring, she said, she has lived on Social Security income of $430 a month.
The forfeiture is being pursued jointly by the state and Spokane County, and a Superior Court hearing is set for Oct. 16.
Mrs. Hart's lawyer, John Rodgers, said he would try to negotiate a settlement that avoided forfeiture of the house.
"It's not right in this case," Mr. Rodgers said. "It's a new law and it's being brought to bear against a person who wasn't responsible for the drug war."