Detectives assigned to the sheriff’s Investigative Task Force raided a Spokane home early Thursday and seized 105 marijuana plants and several hundred dollars in cash.
A spokesman said two men at the home have been “hiding behind the medical marijuana law” to grow the drug in Spokane and sell it in the Everett, Washington area.
He said the operation has been underway the past two years, and was only discovered March 1st when the odor of marijuana was detected drifting from the home at 1527 E. Rockwell.
Law enforcement arrested 28-year-old Robert Thompson and 31-year-old Eric Franklin, and had four forged medical marijuana provider forms posted at the grow site. The law allows persons with a medical marijuana form to grow no more than 15 plants.
The hydroponic growing operation was found in the basement of the home. Both men were booked into the Spokane County Jail on felony counts of manufacturing a Controlled Substance – Marijuana.
Just make it legal and tax it already
105 plants isn't that many. More than 1/2 were probably clones or immature.
I hope these guys take care of their legal issues then start up again–maybe legal this time?
i am the medical marajauna person that they were supposed to be growing for,i have never been to the house in question,i only meet the guy twice. i only recived 2.5 ozs period, and then they made me buy my own med.(marajuania) that was grown for me .that i know of i wonder how a person can afford a 2000.00 doller a mounth for his house rent,plus he paid rent and all bills on the house in spokane.where did the money come from since they dont work for at least a cupple of years i know of ,they did no moor then take advantage of a poor ,disabled,dieing,person that cant live or eat without im 54 years old,who watches out for us ?also i live in everett,wa i dont think i have been in that area in 20 years