Caller leads police to pot in downtown location

[hippiechick]

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060720/NEWS01/607200432/1006

Caller leads police to pot in downtown location

LaPorte -- An anonymous caller led a police officer to a 3-foot-tall marijuana plant growing in a brick planter along a downtown sidewalk.

The planters are maintained by the city's Business Improvement District, a group of local business owners that for years has have organized volunteers to weed each of the 130-plus planters. That work, however, did not catch the marijuana plant that Officer John Butcher found Monday night.

Chief of Detectives Adam Klimczak said the marijuana was likely planted on purpose, but he had no idea who might have done it. Butcher pulled the plant and took it to the police station, where it was destroyed.


... stories like this always make me wonder just exactly HOW the authorities 'destroyed' the offending plant(s) when they seize them. Hypocrites. :smoke:

[thinkingwoman]

1. No need to wonder...

they burn them. :-)

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

2. I remember once

hearing about the plainfield police burning like a whole mess of weed that was found once in the middle of a corn field and people who lived up to a half mile away could smell it.

[thinkingwoman]

3. When I was growing up in southern Indiana

the same thing happened...bunch of cops had a pot bonfire. Lots of high officers and neighbors. :rofl: