ELLSWORTH, Maine — A property owner found an evicted tenant’s old — and, police say, failed — indoor marijuana growing operation Thursday afternoon in Ellsworth.
The Water Street landlord discovered heat lamps and two dead and wilted marijuana plants in an old wooden box in a room of an apartment he’d previously rented. The tenants were evicted last weekend, said Ellsworth Police Lt. Harold Page.
Page said police also found prescription pill bottles and a few “marijuana smoking devices” at the apartment, but it seemed none of the gear had been used in a long, long time.
“I’d say they hadn’t used any of it in a couple years,” Page said. “Everything was covered in cobwebs. It’s something, I’d say, they experimented with and never got anywhere.”
Page said the identities of the former tenants are known, but that police are not pursuing an investigation or any criminal charges.
The crude cultivation kit, along with the pipes and pill bottles, were brought to the police station, where they were destroyed.
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I had cereal for breakfast to day then I went to work.
That is more of an exciting news story.
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lol…two plants a a couple of heat lamps = growing operation?
It can be one freshly sprouted seed under a blacklight and the law would consider it an operation with a potential value of at least 4,000.00…. So yeah, this was a pretty serious operation, in terms of how the law looks at it. Too bad they didnt catch these masterminds in the act, they coulda had the chance to do some solid police work, you know, really clean up the streets.
Usually I’m not the “this isn’t news” type but…
…yeah, this isn’t news.
Along with the Ellsworth Police Department, I think the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency should be called in, along with the Maine State Police, and FBI. Maybe Andy and Barney too. THIS IS HUGE NEWS!!!!!
Call the ATF, the Fire Department, evict everyone else within 200 feet! We got ourselves a big take down goin…oh I forgot…no investigation.
There is a dealer right now reading this thinking “Man I need to know the identities of these people, these people are good!”
Jokes on you. People doing illegal things are too busy to read the paper.
great, all the EASIER for us to report them and get caught……one step ahead of ya man…..
Glad I am not one of them considering I just read websites and not “papers”
Its all the same. News and propaganda is news and propaganda no matter the medium.
You seem to know all the secrets, we are one step ahead of you, thanks for letting us in on them
I fail to understand how anyone is “one step ahead” of anyone, here. And if you are, why are you thanking me for letting you in on “secrets” which you should already know? Apparently I am too stupid to get what you are trying to say. Didnt realize this was a race and that I was telling secrets. Care to elaborate?
I read the paper daily and I smoke weed.
ya and he lives on Maddocks ave
Trust me…thousand of $ spent on a big marijuana grow with thousands of plants here in Washington county and still no arrest. So, something tell me that they wont bother with this…
Brilliant deduction Captain Obvious.
Apparently this boy isnt well versed in the use of sarcasm.
Ok so no crime comitted it seems and no investigation, is there a paragraph I am missing here for the relivance of this? Is this article conveying to us that at least in Ellsworth if you can attempt and apparently fail (unless you are really good at faking things) a growing operation in your apartment, that when you are evicted and the stuff is later discovered, you are OK, there is no posession charges even because you technically were not caught red handed let’s say. So I get it now, have a growing operation, keep it a secret, sell off everything, get some cobwebs on old stuff and nobody will pick up on a thing!
Now if you will excuse me I need to see where I can get me some “heat lamps” for my operation, I mean my chickens……
As we drive down our rutted roads – past our underfunded schools and emergency rooms filled with folks who don’t have health insurance I am sure we all appreciate the focus and money spent in this Great State Of Felons on marijuana enforcement.
Who tries to grow Marijuana with heat lamps? Really? No wonder they failed miserably and felt so bad that they left.
Wow, earth shattering news.
Yawn.
I’m going to be a news reporter in my next life…
I tried that in my last life… couldnt hack the bad comments..lol
Holy crap, it’s the end of the world as we know it…
Hard hitting,in depth coverage of today’s most pressing issues.This reporter will be going to cnn soon.
This is more an amusing anecdote than anything else.
Isn’t it great that cops and prohibitionists put us in danger every day? Prohibition is the only thing dangerous about marijuana. It funnels all profits directly to gangs and cartels while putting us all in danger. Then instead of getting child rapists and murderers off the streets, the cops get to arrest harmless marijuana users. Win-win for the cops, win for violent criminals, loss for the rest of us! Not to mention all our tax dollars paying to house and feed harmless marijuana users and militarize the police. What a waste.
I
spent 5 years in Federal Prison for a marijuana offense. I watched armed bank
robbers come and go in as little as 20 months.
After
3 years ‘behind the wall,’ I pointed this out to the parole board. Their response: “You must
understand, yours was a very serious offense.”
How
do you respond to that mentality?
I
laughed about that for 2 more years (as I still sat in prison), then wrote my
book:
Shoulda
Robbed a Bank
That’s
my contribution to helping point out just how ludicrous our pot laws truly
are.
I
hope you check it out.