Charges Expected Against Cop Who Watered Marijuana Plant

[Liberal_in_LA]

Charges Expected Against Ross Township Cop Who Watered Marijuana Plant

ROSS TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- A Ross Township police officer accused of growing marijuana will face charges in the case, authorities announced.

Channel 11 News learned that police conducting a routine exercise with drug dogs discovered the plant in a wooded area. Police set up surveillance cameras, which reportedly captured White, on duty in his uniform, watering the plants.

White, 58, said that while on duty, he found the 2-foot plant near Cemetery Lane and watered it once.

"I was fascinated. Why? I don't know. I just came across this, you know," said White.

The former Vietnam veteran said he pulled his police motorcycle into the wooded area so he could urinate. That's when White said he noticed the marijuana plant and watered it with a bottle he carried with him, authorities said. A couple of days later, White said he knew he made a mistake, returned to the scene, tore the plant from the ground and threw it into the woods.

"I made a mistake, and I corrected it, I thought, before it got out of hand," White said.

White said he regrets watering the plant. Channel 11's Jodine Costanzo asked White if he planned on smoking the marijuana, and he replied, “Not really."

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[MH1]

1. like there's nothing actually important going on in the world

it always blows my mind, the money spent on trying to prevent people from growing or consuming just certain natural plants.

[Kookaburra]

2. Why would they have surveillance cameras in the woods?

I'm confused. Someone isn't telling the whole story here. Either he has more crops than just that one plant, or his fellow cops were out to get him by entrapment.

[abq e streeter]

3. Thank God ! Sueveillance cameras around a pot plant. Don't all of you feel safer now? I know I do

An eminently worthwhile and practical allocation of money and law enforcement resources. When watering pot plants is outlawed, only outlaws will have healthy pot plants . Or something...

[RKP5637]

5. I'm surprised they don't have a drone in the sky 7x24 watching this plant as

it's such a threat to national security. What a lame place this has become (or always has been).

[abq e streeter]

6. yes, but let pot plants flourish, and calamities like this could eventually be the result:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ136zd1m14&feature=fvw

[RKP5637]

7. Now that's a fun job!!! LOL n/t

[RKP5637]

4. Stupid country, stupid laws, why would anyone be surprised. n/t

[Jamastiene]

8. Oh, ffs. I'm surprised the assholes didn't call in the SWAT team.

A cop does a nice deed and gets charged for it. :wtf: What a waste of tax payers' money charging him. So fucking stupid.

[nessa]

9. The original story, with more details

According to the story, the cops were training K9s. A dog found the plant. The police left the plant and set up a camera to determine whose plant it was.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10244/1084164-100.stm

[Matariki]

10. A camera for a *single* pot plant???

Our society has its priorities ass backwards.

[Canuckistanian]

11. A secuity camera on a pot plant in the woods- now I've heard it all

This how your taxes are spent, people. Anyone got a problem with that?