Booby-trapped Cannabis

[Oz]

WHEN police searched Gordon Clark's Surges Bay property in Tasmania last year he handed over a bag of marijuana he said was for his personal use, a court was told yesterday.

 

The Supreme Court in Hobart heard that Mr Clark told police he was going to use it to make marijuana cookies.

 

But prosecutor Michael Shirley told the court that as police continued looking around Mr Clark's property, a detective passed a water tank next to a shed and thought he heard an extractor fan.

 

Searchers moved into the shed where they found, after shifting around some items, a passageway into the tank.

 

Mr Shirley said the tank was separated into three rooms, the walls lined with polystyrene and five marijuana plants were growing hydroponically under lights.

 

Police then moved to a nearby shed that was locked with a bolt.

 

When an officer tried to move the bolt an explosion was heard from inside the shed.

 

"Attached to the sliding bolt was a mechanism that when pulled caused a shot gun shell to be discharged," Mr Shirley said.

 

Police also found marijuana stored in Snaplock bags weighing about an ounce, which was the weight the drug was normally sold on the street, he said.

 

Mr Clark, 66, of Police Point Rd, Surges Bay, has pleaded not guilty to trafficking marijuana between October 1999 and March last year.

 

Mr Shirley said Mr Clark told police the crop they found was his second and that all the plants were for his personal use.

 

But the prosecutor said the Snaplock bags of marijuana were evidence that Mr Clark was involved in trafficking in the drug.

 

The jury spent most of yesterday viewing sites that would be mentioned in the trial.

 

The trial is expected to wind up tomorrow.

 

Source: The Mercury

[Quad Damage]

never send a shotgun to do dynamites work...

[Tom]

But prosecutor Michael Shirley told the court that as police continued looking around Mr Clark's property, a detective passed a water tank next to a shed and thought he heard an extractor fan.

If you are going to do a stealth grow then you need to hide everything, including the noise.