Medical Marijuana Grower Releases Photos Of Basement After Police Visit; Saginaw County Sheriff's Officials Say Destruction Policy Will Change

[StarSeed]

many in the LEO community need to wake up and wise up and stop the wanton ignorance and blatant disregard for the law and the rights of the citizenry. the old motto "to protect and serve" died a long time ago,.. LEO are now just that, "law enforcment officers". it would be reasonable to expect they could at very least do that in accordance with the law in question.

 

many LEO's are too content to just do what they have always done, or push their own agenda or moral code despite what the law may says. lawsuits need to be filed in absolutley every instance in wich events of this nature occur.

 

70 years of propaganda, misinformation,disinformation,ignorance and lies dont help our cause.

we have to do everything we possibly can to effect positive change in the matter or MM.

[the green leaf farmacy]

By Gus Burns | The Saginaw News

May 20, 2010, 9:15AM

 

SAGINAW — In response to the new medical marijuana laws, Saginaw County sheriff’s deputies will discontinue their policy of destroying grow equipment when they serve search warrants at the homes of medical marijuana patients or caretakers, Saginaw County Sheriff’s Detective Randy P. Pfau said.

 

“Instead of destroying property, we’ll take everything in a forfeiture and let a judge make a decision on whether they’re allowed to have that property back or not,” Pfau said.

 

The second look at the policy is a response by the department to the public concern regarding action taken by deputies and federal Drug Enforcement Agency agents in the basement of the home owned by Edwyn W. Boyke Jr., 64, of Saginaw Township, Pfau said.

 

Police raided Boyke’s home on April 15, because they say he violated drug laws, and destroyed his grow operations, which Boyke said cost him $7,000.

 

“It’s so new to us, this new law, so we’re acting on protocol that’s been in place... forever with manufacture of marijuana,” Pfau said.

 

Pfau said the old norm was to take a portion of the grow equipment to present as evidence and document with rest with photographs and inventory sheets, so they didn’t need to confiscate sometimes large setups.

 

Because the possession and farming of marijuana is no longer inherently illegal, due to the new state medicinal laws, Pfau said deputies will adjust their procedures.

 

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Read the original story and see the pictures here:

http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2010/05/medical_marijuana_grower_relea.html

no call to do that they should be sued for dammages its search not search and destory bunny muffens