Oregon Police Say They Used Google Earth To Bust Medical Marijuana Garden With Too Many Plants

[bobandtorey]

 

GRANTS PASS, Oregon — Police say the view from space helped them bust a medical marijuana garden with too many plants in Southern Oregon.

 

The Grants Pass Daily Courier reports (http://bit.ly/H6KD3A ) authorities received a tip that 50-year-old Curtis W. Croft was bragging about all the pot he was growing on his property outside Grants Pass. Investigators went to Google Earth to find out what they could see.

 

Authorities say online satellite images taken in June showed dozens of plants in neat rows, so the Rogue Area Drug Enforcement Team sent up an aircraft for a closer look and checked state medical marijuana records.

 

They showed Croft was registered to grow for five people, which amounts to 30 mature plants. Authorities say a police raid in September seized 94 plants.

 

Croft was arraigned on drug charges last week and released.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Google Earth provides evidence for drug bust

By Shaun Hall of the Daily Courier

The popular "view from space" website Google Earth has again been used to bust an allegedly out-of-compliance medical marijuana grower in Josephine County.

 

The website's remarkably clear satellite images, supplemented by a more conventional aerial reconnaissance of the suspect's property, were used by the Rogue Area Drug Enforcement Team to gather evidence against Curtis W. Croft, 50, of 5943

 

 

Riverbanks Road.

 

 

 

http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/eb8d6494c2644298bd0f66d9fd166eb7/US--Google-Earth-Pot-Bust

[t-pain]

if they had a tip, why did they bother with google earth?

 

also google earth sattelite images are sometimes 2-5 years old.

Edited October 22, 2013 by t-pain

[greenbuddha]

Modern technology and Big Brother working together... what a wonderful sense of security for all of us.

 

Might want to also check the GPS on that cell phone that you do your chit chatting on.

 

Had a barcoded burger lately?

[trichcycler]

....as well as the latitude and longitude of the location of your phone when a pic is taken, imbedded in posted photos

whats next in this state, sun tax ?

[solabeirtan]

Think it's just a cheap shot at the Google to acknowledge their disaproval of Googles' choice to support Cannabis' 501c4's.

 

 They said the pics were from June. What would they have been then 1-2ft tall ?   

[trichcycler]

good point

[zachw]

"50-year-old Curtis W. Croft was bragging"

 

Why can't folks keep their f'in mouths shut?

[solabeirtan]

I call it the 'fear of success' ... keeps many of us from reaching...  too far.

 

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
 

 -   John Burroughs     ...  Read more

[trichcycler]

"50-year-old Curtis W. Croft was bragging"

 

Why can't folks keep their f'in mouths shut?

.... and grow within legal limits

and do the speed limit while delivering marijuana

and don't set up pot shops until its legal

 

seems cannabis use doesn't prefer smarts err