MILLINOCKET, Maine — A local man is due in court on March 7 to answer a drug summons after police claimed to have found a full-grown marijuana plant, several smaller pot plants and cultivating equipment worth $3,500, they said Wednesday.
Jason Spingel, 28, of Millinocket was issued a summons late Friday night for cultivating marijuana and illegal possession of drug paraphernalia, police said.
Sgt. Aaron Brooker and Officer Martin Legassey were called to Spingel’s home on Iron Bridge Road at about 10 p.m. Friday upon report of an argument occurring there. When they arrived, the officers were struck by the pronounced odor of growing marijuana, police said.
Upon quelling the argument, police discovered the marijuana plant in a bedroom closet and issued the summons to Spingel. The woman with whom he was quarreling, his mother, told police that she knew nothing of the plant until police found it, police said.
Spingel is due in Millinocket District Court on March 7, police said.
Whoa…jackpot! One full grown cannabis plant! Congratulations to the Millinocket PD for doing their part to uphold the most ridiculous, insane, counterproductive prohibition since the repeal of the 18th amendment in 1933.
Legalize it!
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Wow. Do you ever have anything else to say? This is really getting old.
When I first looked at it I thought that it said…To report information about dumb crimes.
Props to Green Day:
I want to be the minority
I don’t need your authority
Down with the moral majority
‘Cause I want to be the minority
I pledge allegiance to the underworld
One nation under dark
There of which I stand alone
A face in the crowd
Unsung, against the mold
Without a doubt
Singled out
The only way I know
I hear when they took that plant to the station; they…. put in in a dark room…under a disco ball… and all danced around their great trophy…….the notion is ALMOST as ignorant; as taking this mans singular plant .
Just one of Anslinger’s Lies :-/
“There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.” Harry J. Anslinger, testimony to Congress, 1937
More nonsense http://www.drugwarrant.com/articles/why-is-marijuana-illegal/
Thanks for the link. Well done. Here’s my favorite–
“Reefer makes darkies think they’re as good as white men.”
Gasp!
Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
Keith Richards
A search warrant would have been important to have since they were there for something else
Unless they asked and got permission to search for illegal drugs the case is weak. He’s not going to get his pot back even if the charges get dropped. I do have my doubts about “the pronounced odor of growing marijuana”.
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just one plant… come on they should have just taken it away if it bothered them that bad…i pray one of there family members gets caught…..lol that nevers happens
Have another hit and re read the article , you missed the part about several smaller plants.
The smaller ones are called clones. The big one was the mother plant.
That sounds eerily science fictional.
Not necessarily…. Regardless, this war on a plant is absurd. I’m not a user, but this is one of the most blatant lies our government has ever generated. This is 2012…….. abolish the prohibition of this plant. It makes us look weak, as a country.
one turns into twenty…….come on now…
Maine ain’t as open for bidniz as our governor asserts, so it seems.
How much of the deficit could be patched if they just stopped spending money on stupid crap like this.
I think the availability of federal money drives them to spend some state money. When federal law already covers possession cultivation or sale of any amount, we should “just say no” to their partial funding of a state agency. That way we also transfer court, probation and prison costs to the federal government. If all the states would do that I bet we would see some quick changes in federal law. We would also get paid a flat rate per day for each federal inmate in our county jails.
I like your idea. My only question would be, can the State of Maine “opt out” of that federal money? I think if the answer is yes, states could apply some serious pressure to the fed. Make things happen very quickly.
It might mean losing some federal money for other law enforcement programs. I think most of the federal money that goes to states is a form of extortion. We actually enact laws that meet their “standards” in order to continue receiving it.
Then we need to pay for our inmates that live in other states. It works two ways.
States already pay other states for housing inmates if it’s not an equal number of prisoners swapped under a prisoner exchange agreement. If a Maine inmate in another state gets taken to an emergency room, guess who gets the bill for it? We also have to pay when a fugitive from Maine gets held in another state for us. If he gets treated at an ER or clinic on the way back to Maine we get billed for that. I knew a retired cop who worked for one of those extradition companies and he told me about it. They just need to show the extradition documents. The provider knows who to bill and he knows the bill will get paid.
Only in Millinocket ….that will put a big dent in the pot traffic…LOL …equipmet worth 3,500 to grow one plant….I thing they may be stretching it a wee bit
With no filter?
And the world in Maine goes round and round. Lot’s of people in Maine have way to much time on their hands.
“The officers were struck by the pronounced odor of growing marijuana” Who needs drug sniffing dogs.
Are arguments illegal?
I feel so much safer having this heinous criminal off the streets…
The cops “were struck by the pronounced odor of growing marijuana,” but the mother had no clue it was there? ummmmmm sure!