Stolen power boosts drugs

[Indycar]

Stolen power boosts drugs

 

EIGHT weeks' worth of electricity was stolen to power an elaborate hydroponic cannabis operation south of Innisfail, police allege.

 

A man, 46, will appear in Innisfail Magistrates' Court on July 7 charged with a string of drug offences after police raided a home at Cowley Beach last week.

 

Far Northern Drug Squad Det Sen-Sgt Mick Dowie said a "sophisticated" hydroponic cannabis set-up was found in a room under the house.

 

Just nine plants were seized but they weighed 36kg and were "very high yielding", he said.

 

"It was a very good set-up," Sen-Sgt Dowie said. "The plants were in excellent condition.

 

"I'd suggest there'd been quite a bit of money invested into the equipment, into the lab."

 

About 630g of dried and packaged cannabis sativa were also found in the home.

 

Sen-Sgt Dowie alleged the production also was illegally using electricity to run powerful lights over the cannabis and Ergon Energy staff were called in to dismantle the power network.

 

"That obviously creates a serious safety risk to our police where we believe they've turned all the power off yet there's still a live feed of electricity coming around the power switches," he said.

 

The drug squad has shut down about 10 hydroponic cannabis operations in the past year.

 

The largest was a laboratory and 100 plants in a secluded shed at East Trinity, across the inlet from Cairns, which was discovered in February.

 

Three other hydroponic set-ups, including one operating in a secret bunker in a Smithfield home, were found during the same investigation.

Source: www.cairns.com.au

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Edited June 18, 2008 by Indycar

[ConvexConepiece]

Makes ya wonder how they find em.

[Low_ryder]

"That obviously creates a serious safety risk to our police where we believe they've turned all the power off yet there's still a live feed of electricity coming around the power switches," he said.

 

It's almost like they were met by blazing guns because we know how dangerous electricity is

At least they had some lights on for the piggies so they didn't fall and hurt themselves..

 

Honestly pretty soon i think they are going to start saying that the houses are boobie trapped with explosives

 

Not too long till they emulate faux news:

 

And the 4kg weight pr plant is funny:

 

To determine the projected yield of mature marijuana plants, experts use various methodologies, which leads to divergent testimony by defense and prosecution experts. One common methodology favored by defense experts is based on a 1992 DEA study entitled "Cannabis Yields." According to this study, the fresh (or wet) weight of each marijuana plant (roots and leaves included) is multiplied by 0.1437 to obtain an estimate of usable dry weight material. See http://www.drugpolicy.org/

 

And this is the dea talking..

 

I'm sick of cops saying they got drugs worth millions of dollars when really the usable dry weight according to dea's method which i tend to think exaggerates also the yield of these dried plants would be something like:

 

5.1kg not 36kg total

[Al B. Fuct]

Yep, we're all sick of it. It's just a matter of the courts & coppers assigning totally arbitrary figures- because they can.