Cops Bust Man They Tailed from Hydroponics Shop!

Posted by FoM on June 30, 1999 at 17:45:15 PT by Greg Avery-Daily Times-Call  Source: Longmont FYI  BOULDER The Boulder County Drug Task Force discovered 202 marijuana plants growing in a Boulder house last week and on Tuesday arrested two men on marijuana-cultivation charges. Louisville resident Edward C. Link, 26, and Boulder resident Mason Bradley Waxman, 24, face felony cultivation charges after task force investigators uncovered the illegal growing operation at a rental home at 775 Merry Lane. In February, detectives followed Link from an indoor gardening supply store in east Boulder back to the Merry Lane house and watched him unload materials frequently used in indoor marijuana cultivation. Officers saw a dead marijuana plant in a bucket in the yard. Using that to get a search warrant, task force members searched the home and found the 202-plant operation inside, reports said. The March 12 search also uncovered ledger notations of suspected sales, calendars of plant growing cycles and marijuana packaged for sale, reports said. Waxman, who lives at the house, reportedly confessed to growing the plants and identified Link as his partner, officers report. Waxman turned himself in to police Monday and was booked and released. The news of the drug operation came as a shock to Longmont resident Ralph Hubbel, who owns the Merry Lane home and rented it to Waxman 11 months ago. ``He told us he was working at IBM at the time, and the other guy (Link) told me he was a substitute in Boulder schools. I have no idea whether that stuff is true now,'' Hubbel said, adding that his and his wife's faith in people has been shaken. Waxman ``seemed like a prince of a fellow at the time. We didn't have any problem getting rent from them.'' When Link failed to turn himself in as expected, officers went to his home at 1504 Washington Ave. in Louisville, and found the house windows coated with condensation which indicated a possible growing operation there as well. A search warrant for the home was issued Tuesday, and officers found the remnants of an apparent growing operation inside. Information that Link moved growing equipment to a storage locker led to a search of a Boulder storage facility Tuesday night. Timers, pumps, indoor irrigation equipment and a plastic container full of marijuana were found. So was a calendar of plant cycles identical to the one found in the Boulder house, reports said. Link was arrested later that night and booked at the Boulder County Jail. He was released on $2,500 personal recognizance bond Wednesday afternoon. Pubdate : Unknown © 1998 Times-Call Publishing Co. Home    Comment    Email    Register    Recent Comments    Help

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Comment #3 posted by some druggie on November 10, 2000 at 07:54:56 PT

Can`t think of a fitting title

"i hate narks! they make me sick to my fu@#$%g stomach!
why don't the police do something else like arest people
that really break the law like rapist,narcotics dealers,
molesters, and one of my favorites drunking drivers!"
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Uhm, they DID arrest "narcotics dealers", just as you asked
for. As long as the War on(non-CorpUSA-sponsored)Drugs
goes on, they lump ALL drug-sellers into one catagory, and
having 200+ plants ain`t exactly for "personal use";)
If you burnout stoners ocassionally had the balls to stick
up for "narcotics dealers"(which, like it or not, are your
comrades on the same side of the prohibition hammer as any
pot-dealers)and weren`t so quick to disassociate yourselves
from all *other* illegal drugs as if they were Baaaaaaaad
with the same kneejerk, hypocritical reaction cocktail-
swilling, cigarette-puffing "straights" do when confronted
with the "insane" suggestion that OTHER drugs are, or at
least, can be, less harmful than that glass of Jim Beam or
Pall Mall they are presently holding in their hand, maybe
we would not only present a more unified front in the fight
to end prohibition, but could muster up a larger and more
powerful political force that the politi-hoes would HAVE to
start listening to. The fight to end the illegal, unconst-
itutional and criminally-insane War on(some)Drugs would be
easier if ALL of us recreational drug-users stuck together.
If the rate of drug-using Americans is only 10%, that`s
STILL about 15 million users of voting age that COULD`VE,
but DIDN`T want to be bothered putting down that bong long
enough to pull a lever for Harry Browne this past Tuesday.
Browne, who, need I remind you, was the recreational drug
user`s best friend, got only about 400k votes. Where WERE
all you *millions* of stoners last Tuesday?? You had a once
in 4 years chance at voting for complete legalization on
the Federal level, and you couldn`t be bothered getting off that couch long enough to make that trip to the polls. You
blew it. 400,000 paltry vote for Browne, and *millions* of
vote-eligible druggies who let this chance slip through their fingers without a fight. Unbelievable!
Regardless of which hypocrit is finally sorted out from
among the fraud and scandle-ridden rubble of the recent
election, neither of them intends to end the Drug War, and
the blame can be squarely placed on the drug-users who
*could`ve* voted, but DIDN`T. Those of you who claim to hate narcs, but did nothing about the Drug War last Tuesday, obviously don`t hate them ENOUGH to take the step towards making them go the way of the dinosaur. Thanks for nothing!

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