I had a very similar situation happen to me in bellevue washington, about 15 miles east of seattle. My friend who was living in an apartment agreed to grow a plant for me because I didnt have a space. So we build this tent inside the bathroom, have one 400 watt light and one plant. Nothing serious at all. I signed him over as my legal care giver and posted that and all my paper work and a letter stating that everything used to grow or store marijuana was my property, and I put my lawyers phone number and my phone number. I even put THCF's verification line on there too so they could make sure it wasent a fake rec. My caregiver is a very good neighbor, it was never ever loud in the apartment, and we had a filter to eliminate the smell of marijuana which it did.
Well low and behold when my caregiver was at work one day and the hook that works the lever in the toilet broke and left the toilet flushing. Maintenance guy goes to fix toilet, and sees the plant, Most likely cannot read english, dismissing the fact that it was medical, calls the cops.
Officer Trizuito of Bellevue police department shows up with somthing like 3 other cars, and an suv with 6 or 7 accompanying officers and my buddy isnt there, so they call him and tell him that they know about the plants and they need him to come and let them in. well my buddy comes over and talks to the cops, denies them entrance because they didnt have a search warrant, and explains that its a medical grow. He asked to go inside to get the paperwork and show them, but instead they detain him. Unfortunatly i didnt show him this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmrbNLt7Om8&p=1B0B357282389571&feature=BF&index=1.
The cops told him that there were other officers on there way with a search warrant, and his cooperativeness will only help him. Well they got him! He told them they could enter and gave them his keys, did their search and took him to jail.
While this whole thing is going down, im racing there with my paper work in hopes that he hasnt given them access and when i get there everyone is gone, except around 5 people standing around talking about what happened. I go in.
They ransacked the apartment, pulled every thing out of its place and threw it in the main living area, even the fridge was wide open. They took a bong, 2 grams of dried medicine, my light, my fan, my inline fan and filter, various jars, and my plant. But check this, when they took the plant instead of cutting it while it was in the pot and confiscating the plant, you know what they did? they pulled it out of the pot brought it over into the living area and cut the dirt and root mass off over the carpet. and at the least they could have tried to keep the dirt in one place on the carpet, no, they smash up the root mass and track dirt all over the carpet. Funny thing is cops these cops were pretty fucking stupid. the only thing they missed was my big stash (around 1 lb), which was stored in three vcr's, (which looked like they had been tampered with, and were way to light to be a vcr) stacked on top of each other. not only that, but we didnt even have a TV in the room! Great police work guys! haha
I got the hell out of there and went to jack in the box and got some tacos and smoked a few bowls to feel better, when i get a call from my care giver. I thought he was getting his one call from jail or somthing lol. But they let him go, and he hasn't heard from them since. I tried to get my stuff back mainly my growing equipment only to be ignored for about three weeks. I call the operator again and leave another message on his phone, and leave my cell phone again. So what does officer trizuito do? he calls my home phone! and of course i wasn't home, but all he had to tell me was that my buddy was not a legal care provider and that if I wanted use marijuana medically i needed to find someone who went through the proper procedures to be legal lol. He also said that all the evidence was seized sent to evidence and then destroyed!!!
What the hell, not only do you arrest my friend (not nicely either even though he was very cooperative, he had deep groves and bruising on his wrists from the hand cuffs about 3 hours after the incident happened), but you also trash my apartment and steal my growing equipment and deny you found medical documentation and proof that it was legally my stuff. I cant believe this happens in a medical state.
I am back to growing again! But this really scares me, I didnt this raids like this happened in washington state. I cannot imagine them doing that to my house with all my belongings and my families belongings, not to mention the fact that I have a dog. I cant imagine how angry I would be if my dog got shot.
Well low and behold when my caregiver was at work one day and the hook that works the lever in the toilet broke and left the toilet flushing. Maintenance guy goes to fix toilet, and sees the plant, Most likely cannot read english, dismissing the fact that it was medical, calls the cops.
Officer Trizuito of Bellevue police department shows up with somthing like 3 other cars, and an suv with 6 or 7 accompanying officers and my buddy isnt there, so they call him and tell him that they know about the plants and they need him to come and let them in. well my buddy comes over and talks to the cops, denies them entrance because they didnt have a search warrant, and explains that its a medical grow. He asked to go inside to get the paperwork and show them, but instead they detain him. Unfortunatly i didnt show him this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmrbNLt7Om8&p=1B0B357282389571&feature=BF&index=1.
The cops told him that there were other officers on there way with a search warrant, and his cooperativeness will only help him. Well they got him! He told them they could enter and gave them his keys, did their search and took him to jail.
While this whole thing is going down, im racing there with my paper work in hopes that he hasnt given them access and when i get there everyone is gone, except around 5 people standing around talking about what happened. I go in.
They ransacked the apartment, pulled every thing out of its place and threw it in the main living area, even the fridge was wide open. They took a bong, 2 grams of dried medicine, my light, my fan, my inline fan and filter, various jars, and my plant. But check this, when they took the plant instead of cutting it while it was in the pot and confiscating the plant, you know what they did? they pulled it out of the pot brought it over into the living area and cut the dirt and root mass off over the carpet. and at the least they could have tried to keep the dirt in one place on the carpet, no, they smash up the root mass and track dirt all over the carpet. Funny thing is cops these cops were pretty fucking stupid. the only thing they missed was my big stash (around 1 lb), which was stored in three vcr's, (which looked like they had been tampered with, and were way to light to be a vcr) stacked on top of each other. not only that, but we didnt even have a TV in the room! Great police work guys! haha
I got the hell out of there and went to jack in the box and got some tacos and smoked a few bowls to feel better, when i get a call from my care giver. I thought he was getting his one call from jail or somthing lol. But they let him go, and he hasn't heard from them since. I tried to get my stuff back mainly my growing equipment only to be ignored for about three weeks. I call the operator again and leave another message on his phone, and leave my cell phone again. So what does officer trizuito do? he calls my home phone! and of course i wasn't home, but all he had to tell me was that my buddy was not a legal care provider and that if I wanted use marijuana medically i needed to find someone who went through the proper procedures to be legal lol. He also said that all the evidence was seized sent to evidence and then destroyed!!!
What the hell, not only do you arrest my friend (not nicely either even though he was very cooperative, he had deep groves and bruising on his wrists from the hand cuffs about 3 hours after the incident happened), but you also trash my apartment and steal my growing equipment and deny you found medical documentation and proof that it was legally my stuff. I cant believe this happens in a medical state.
I am back to growing again! But this really scares me, I didnt this raids like this happened in washington state. I cannot imagine them doing that to my house with all my belongings and my families belongings, not to mention the fact that I have a dog. I cant imagine how angry I would be if my dog got shot.
