Pot bust in Snoqualmie swipes large stash
April 15, 2009
By Michael Rowe
Snoqualmie police raided a husband and wife marijuana growing team in downtown Snoqualmie April 9.
Police seized 56 marijuana plants, grow lights, two vehicles and several weapons from a home in the 7900 block of Falls Avenue. The home was located behind the City Hall building.
The arrest of the individuals and seizure of the contraband occurred without incident around 11 a.m. The husband, 42, was arrested in front of the residence. Police knocked on the door and the wife, 53, was taken into custody.
In February, a Snoqualmie police officer smelled marijuana near the residence while responding to an unrelated call. There was not probable cause to search the residence at the time. However, an anonymous caller tipped Snoqualmie police to the drug activity occurring at the house.
A group of Snoqualmie police arrived at the house in the police department’s Peacekeeper armored vehicle. Police from the Washington State Patrol and the Issaquah Police Department assisted in the raid. About 15 officers from various police departments participated in the operation.
Snoqualmie Police Department’s Public Information Officer Becky Munson said that charges were being prepared and would be submitted to the King County Prosecutor’s Office on April 15.
The individuals were released from custody and returned to their home. Munson said that the husband had prior arrests, but no drug charges. The wife has no criminal history.
Munson said that it has been a few years since Snoqualmie police have encountered a marijuana growing operation.
“It was a good bust,” Munson said.
Reach reporter Michael Bayless Rowe at mrowe@snovalleystar.com or 392-6434.
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It is absurd that in 2009 we are still persecuting folks for growing marijuana. The police used an “armored vehicle”? Wouldn’t it just be easier to knock on the front door and be let in? The police are becoming a gung-ho bunch of paramilitary terrorists who are the REAL al Qaeda. This “war on drugs” is really a war on citizens and the police are the bad guys. Marijuana should be legal. A group of 20,000 very serious policemen, prosecutors and attorneys have formed a group to legalize ALL drugs, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (http://leap.cc ) They see what happened when we legalized alcohol in 1932 as a good example of how drug legalization would work. We can’t stop drugs. They’re sick of chasing drug users and sending innocent people to prison for decades just because they like to get high. This foolish war on drugs has lasted 37 years and cost us over a TRILLION dollars and we are not an inch closer to stopping drugs. How many millions of Americans are we going to lock up in prison for decades? Legalize ALL drugs now. Mark Montgomery boboberg@nyc.rr.com
for one, knock and talk strategies have been ruled unconstitutional by the Washington supreme court. Getting a warrant from an anonymous tip should be just as unconstitutional. If the person is not willing to give their name, then there should not be any credibility to the tip since the informant is not held responsible for their actions. Since the police wont help us on this, citizens should learn to help each other. Dante stated in the Inferno that the deepest level of hell is reserved for snitches, like Judas for ratting out Jesus. We should make sure that informants pay for these crimes against their fellow man.