FL police raid Marijuana grow house- Value plants at $12,500 each!

[rcrush]

Million-dollar grow house raided in Okeechobee County

By Keona Gardner (Contact)
Originally published 05:43 p.m., April 15, 2009
Updated 05:43 p.m., April 15, 2009

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/apr/15/million-dollar-grow-house-raided-okeechobee-county/?feedback=1#comments

OKEECHOBEE — The Okeechobee County Narcotics Task Force has busted up a million-dollar marijuana grow house operation, according to a news release issued Wednesday from the Okeechobee County Sheriff's Office.

Alexander Ruiz Leon, 35, of the 32000 block of U.S. 441 North, is charged with trafficking marijuana, cultivating marijuana, leasing and renting for the purpose of trafficking a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia, the release states. His bail has not been set.

About 7 p.m. Tuesday, the task force served the search warrant and seized 136 marijuana plants valued at more than $1.7 million, the release states.

"I have said before, we will rid the neighborhoods of this menace. If you are a drug dealer, you are not welcome in Okeechobee County," Sheriff Paul C. May said.

The task force consists of members from the Okeechobee County Sheriff's Office and Okeechobee City Police Department.
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1.7 MILLION for 136 plants HAHAHAHAH

So apparantly its
1,700,000 / 136 = 12,500 per plant LOL
So thats like what? 600 an oz and 20 oz per plant? LOL Indoor plants!

Sounds like they are jacking up the price so they can stick this guy with more jail time.

[RockaFowler]

1. Well at least it wasn't in St Lucie County again

Jeez we had a bunch of those in 2005 & 2006

[pokercat999]

2. The $$ amounts are always about PR. The law rests on

physical amounts like in kilos.

[DefenseLawyer]

3. Those numbers are always amusing.

They are meaningless, in terms of the nature and severity of the charges; but they sound good in the paper.

[doctor jazz]

4. If they ever criminalize saffron they can claim BILLIONS seized per 'street value'

it's nothing short of obscene. :grr:

[Zodiak]

5. You'll love how they arrive at the numbers in Texas

They weigh the soil with the plant and base their street value estimates on that.

Nevermind that you cannot sell the soil, the stems, or really the leaves for that matter. It's all about making the cops look better, and if some poor schlep ends up in jail for the rest of his life, well, that is a small price to pay for making the cops look better.

After all, it is just some loser, right?

This is reason #6483472342 why marijuana should be legalized.

[Soylent Brice]

6. pics?

:)

[Uncle Joe]

7. It's all so relative, if Marijuana were legal, that might be the equivalent of 136

cherry tomato plants, this is your tax dollars on some drugs.

Meanwhile tune in to your evening network news broadcast pusher of legal drugs with every possible side effect under the sun, including death, being promoted as the answer to everybody and their mommas' ailments of any stripe.

[ixion]

8. someone grows a naturally occuring plant, just like you would grow tomatoes

and now their life is ruined.

Some freedom!

End the so-called 'war' on drugs now.