STRONG – Two men were arrested Wednesday night after police searched a home and said they found marijuana plants growing and evidence of trafficking marijuana.
Ritter Bopp, 21 and Ronal Cabe, 19, were arrested and charged with misdemeanor cultivating marijuana and trafficking marijuana after police say they found 16 marijuana plants growing in a farmhouse shared by the two men at 286 Streeter Road.
Special Agent Supervisor Gerry Baril of the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, with officers from the Maine State Police, UMF’s Department of Public Safety Director Ted Blais and Cpl. Nathan Bean of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department with his drug-sniffing dog, arrived at 7 p.m. executed a search warrant at the Streeter Road home.
According to Baril, officers discovered “an indoor marijuana cultivation operation which employed conventional cultivation in large plastic pots and hydroponics cultivation, both inside a single room, using two sets of grow lights for photosynthesis. There were 12 plants growing in pots, and 2 growing in a water solution in the room.
“In the hallway a single marijuana plant growing in a potted plastic beverage container was seized. In the bathroom another potted marijuana plant, bearing seeds, was discovered and seized. In total, 16 live marijuana plants, along with a 4-foot stalk, with roots still attached, but previously stripped of marijuana plant material, found next to a bookcase between the bathroom and the grow room, evidence of prior cultivation, were seized.”
Beverage liter bottles, halved and labeled to identify the strain of marijuana plants with potting soil residue inside, were reportedly found upstairs. In addition, Baril reported “a vegetable dehydrator used to cure the harvested marijuana plant material, a window screen used to also dry the marijuana plant material, digital scales, and 6 plastic baggies containing weighed-out portions of marijuana buds, in ½ ounce, ½ nickel and gram quantities, ready for distribution were found. Seeds for Power Skunk, Diesel, Gigabud, Ak-47 and Purps, all high quality strains of marijuana were also found in one of the bedrooms, further evidence of intent to cultivate.”
The street value total is reportedly $16,000, using a $1,000 a plant estimate, said Stephen McCausland, a spokesman for the state’s Department of Safety.
Bopp and Cabe were arrested and taken to the Franklin County jail.
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I don’t know how the state justifies spending the hard earned money from the public to bust 2 kids growing a little weed based on some dirty rats comments, isn’t there some more serious drugs out there like the 7,000 worth of drugs taken Rangeley or the close to same amount in Livermore?? Its a good thing were wasting our time with a influence that has proven to hurt nobody, and continue to let the pills and hard drugs spill on to the streets, good work MDEa
more tax dollars wasted punishing people for practicing botany. Weed is no more dangerous than broccoli. Can we cut the useless public law enforcement now?
It always seems the pot growers are the ones charged, and the meth cookers are the ones allowed to roam free.
Oh, for god’s sake! This is such a small time harmless thing…how can we justify sending these guys to jail when there are much more dangerous things going on in the world???? This is absolutely ridiculous.
watch the union it has the truth about marijuana nobody has ever died from it coffee kills something like 3000 a year and then 30000 people kill themselves every year lets be honest nobody would be killin themselves if they just had couple toke when times are ruff or maybe just to celebrate also think how many people start fights or beat up their wife for no reason when thier drunk this would have not have happend if weed was legal instead.
peace
This is pathetic…Why is marijuana illegal in the first place? Someone should start a partition and see how many Americans would vote to legalize marijuana!!!
LEGALIZE IT!!!!
If they were smart they would legalize it and pay off US debt in one year!!!!
Overgrow the government!