False drug test prompts fruitless raid of Leawood home

[pstokely]

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When we first met Bob and Addie Harte in March, they had no idea why deputies from the Johnson County Sheriff's office had banged on their door in April 2012 looking for marijuana. Their only guess was the hydroponic garden in their basement. The father-son project was for growing tomatoes and squash -- not marijuana.
The Hartes sued to get the police records, and 41 Action News filed a request for the information weeks ago. Those records reveal it all started when a member of the Missouri Highway Patrol spotted Bob Harte at The Green Circle in August 2011.
The owner of the hydroponics store in the River Market isn't happy his customers are being watched.
"Why should they be?" asked Bennie Palmentere. "This isn't a communist country."
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http://www.kshb.com/dpp/news/region_kansas/johnson_county/false-drug-test-prompts-wrongful-raid-of-leawood-home#ixzz2SFEmhljk

[AnotherMcIntosh]

1. If MJ causes paranoia, the most amusing post in response to the story was this:

"i went to a place in Northeast...i think it is run by under cover agents"

[Arctic Dave]

3. Not paranoid at all.

The DEA and other police groups routinely create ficticious fronts for sting operations.

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. Don't these cops have anything better to do?

The totality of the evidence that started this investigation was the gentleman going to a hydroponics store.

And that was enough for deputies to start digging through their trash? Pathetic.