EAST MACHIAS, Maine — Three East Machias residents were charged Monday, Sept. 17, with marijuana cultivation after 67 plants were discovered growing on two separate properties.
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant Monday at the Palmer Landing Road home of Vaughn and Janet Cummings after officers, acting on a tip, spotted on Friday, Sept. 14, the 58 plants found on their property on Monday when the warrant was executed. In addition to the plants, deputies located 1.4 pounds of processed marijuana and seized 18 firearms.
Vaughn Cummings, 52, was arrested and charged with marijuana cultivation. Janet Cummings, 51, was summoned for marijuana cultivation. Both have a Nov. 5, 2012, court date.
In a separate search near the Cummings land, deputies found nine more marijuana plants on the property of Leonard Wood Jr., 34, of East Machias. Wood was arrested and charged with marijuana cultivation and also with falsifying physical evidence for allegedly cutting and attempting to conceal the marijuana as deputies arrived to execute the search warrant. Wood also has a Nov. 5, 2012, court date.
Wood also was found to be in violation of marine fisheries laws. Marine Patrol responded and issued summonses for two violations involving an oversized lobster and a V-notched lobster found in Wood’s possession.
Washington County Sheriff Donnie Smith said his deputies were assisted at the scene by Maine Forest Rangers, the Maine Warden Service and the Maine Marine Patrol.
Bout time to leave the pot growers alone since pot is an herb…..go get the hard drug dealers….legalize pot!!!!
what a waste of time and money by the sheriffs office. they should be concentrating on the other drugs like bath salts.
Good job!!!!! Wonder if were gonna have another auction?
Is the police motto still “Protect and Serve”?
Because the only folks getting protection and service from the persecution and prosecution of herb growers is the big pharmaceutical companies whose usurious profits are protected from healthy competition.
It’s time to end the prohibition on cannabis. It is expensive, unproductive and doomed to failure sooner or later. Let’s make it sooner.
Legalize it,Tax it and pay for everyone’s health insurance. Besides the law enforcement will never stop the growing anyway. Let’s spend the tax dollars wisely on finding murderers,child molesters,Child pornography and hard drugs. Also while we are at it let’s start arresting the crooked doctors who write illegal prescriptions and locking them up.
Good job boys….how about Lubec….how about LUBEC…..HOW ABOUT LUBEC!!!
what about you? what about you? what about you? Anything in your closet they should be checking out?
Now just because I dont support the Sheriff doesn’t mean I dont want the drug dealers put away. You clearly are one of his employees probably using one of your work computers…I would be careful about that.
Why be careful? All I’m gonna say is this……..porn. Do you know what I’m talking about?
huh? I am referring to using work computers to post comments. Heck, he is probably one of them. But, you are right probably alot of that too
Where did this article say anything about dealing drugs? Yeah that’s right I don’t think it did, don’t be so quick to jump to conclusions!! There is an drug epidemic in this area but it comes more in the form of a pill!!
if they do legalize it ill be buying a snack shop,lol
better make that a delivery service. ain’t no one gettin’ off the couch when weed is legal.
It’s Miller time. Time to go have a couple of hundred beers and laugh about sticking it to the pot heads.
Yes, I can be certain your alcoholism is much less destructive than those “pot heads.”
ahh I think that was sarcasm
A prescription for medical marijuana is not a license to cultivate it. If the pot heads want to smoke marijuana, buy it. CASE CLOSED!!
Looks like they took some real menaces off the street… LOL
Anyone else notice the police used the marijuana as an excuse to take their guns despite none of them being prohibited to possess a firearm? It all boils down to policing for profit.
…………………………………. “acting on a tip” ……………………….
FIGHT BACK ILLEGAL DRUGS IN MAINE
report illegal drug tips here:
Maine Drug Enforcement
On-line :tip reporting
http://www.maine.gov/dps/mdea/drugtip.html
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Shut up already skowhegan and go back to massachusetts where you came from..you slickster
Print this out, tape it on your refrigerator door :
Maine Drug Enforcement
On-line :tip reporting
http://www.maine.gov/dps/mdea/drugtip.html
Looks like pot is a gateway drug to having notched lobsters! Am glad we are all gonna’ sleep a little safer tonight knowing these scallywags are behind bars.
oh my! -off with their heads !!!
Geeez I see worse druggies walking out of Rite-Aid with their (legal) drugs not to mention the meth clinic.
Let the people grow their own and make it illegal to sell it. SIMPLE. Next Problem.
Come on these people are not criminals!! Give us a break we need to change these laws with our votes…Absolute stupidity…we could be doing alot more with our money than paying all these law enforcement people doing crap like this. Let’sput them to work on something more important or get rid of them and use the money for something else. They should be on the chopping lock like everybody else. Bunch of BULLSHIPP!!
legalize it already ……..i don’t even use weed…….but look at the money that could be made by the government taxing it and saved by not prosecuting the people using it.
EXACTLY. You took the words right out of my mouth.
More of my tax money (yes I do pay taxes Mr. Ronmey) being wasted.
“Maine Youth Summit Hopes To Stomp Out Drugs, Marijuana & Alcohol In Maine”
Caratunk – Empowering students to help fight the battle against drugs and alcohol in their schools. That was the topic of an anti-drug summit in Caratunk Wednesday.
For years, parents and teachers have been fighting the drug problem in our schools. With the help of a federal grant, a group in Somerset County, the Greater Somerset Public Health Collaborative out of Skowhegan, is trying a different approach.
“When we first got the Drug-Free Communities grant at the beginning of last year, we sat down and roughly sketched out some work and had this great idea to do a youth summit,” said Jessica Hebert, one of the youth summit organizers.
Tucked away in the small town of Caratunk is a place called Adventure Bound where that idea has become reality. The concept of the youth summit is simple: fight the use and abuse of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and prescription drugs in schools by enlisting the help of the students. “So they can bring back to their schools some preventative strategies that they can do within their school,” Hebert said.
Representatives from grades 9-12 from five different Somerset County schools, Skowhegan, Madison, Forest Hills High School in Jackman, Carrabec, and Bingham were on hand to learn about strategies and resources they can implement in their schools. “It’s more than just coming into speeches, knowing what you already know, hearing what you already know,” said Madison Senior Hunter Clark. “It’s more about learning about yourself and others and how to be open about yourself without chemicals.” Organizers want to make this an annual event in hopes that having students on the front lines of the battle can eventually help stomp out the drug problem once and for all.
“It feels good to be a part of something that’s going to help other students and other people in the community find a way that they can get help too,” said Desniege Fortier, a Forest Hills High School Student.
WABI CHANNEL 5
http://www.wabi.tv/news/33343/youth-summit-hopes-to-stomp-out-drugs-alcohol-in-maine-schools
Good Job! This guy has been doing this for years it’s about time.
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my daughters read this, they want to do something similar
keep up the good work skow resident ;)
Keep whining you bunch of Downeast Druggie Losers. Go get a job and gety a life you welfare freaks. I’m tired of seeing my tax dollars wasted on supporting you lazy idiots. Do something constructive rather than trying to figure out how to live your life on someone elses dollar. How many of you screw-offs still receive support from “Mum and Dad”?
I live in Downeast Maine, I have a job, I don’t have just any job either I have an awesome job at a bank doing something I love, and I do not do drugs. I’m a little hurt by you saying that about us in Downeast Maine. I’m sure there are drug users and losers in your neighborhood too.
Guess what? I also live in Downeast Maine and have a good job and don’t waste my brain cells doing drugs. Open your eyes and look around. We are losing the battle with drugs here. It’s getting worse, not better. Our permissive society has caused this. I know of many parents that smoke pot along with their children. As I said, we are losing the battle.
im sorry to say this but Lenny Wood Jr is a disgrased to be related to me but still how stupid can ur family get
He’s my brother and I love him anyway….and since you are a “Wood” I’m sure you walk the path of holiness….I haven’t met one yet that hasn’t taken a turn off the beaten path!!
You are a great sister even though it’s not easy, you have such a big heart and his is lucky to have you… I know it’s hard not to be so quick to judge, but at least take the time to get the facts. These are good people, and anyone that knows them knows that. So maybe not the best choices were made; how many of you can say you have no skeletons in your closet??
Family or not, if you are going to make a bold statement about intelligence I would hope you would read your own post first. “Disgrased” “Ur” Just saying.
Not to mention “im”….
Based on your writing, spelling, and nasty sentiment I’d be ashamed to be related to you.
The truth of this situation is …there is a medical marijuana prescription that is valid in that household…..they were following the laws and as far as Lenny goes….everyone makes mistakes..Lenny has paid his debt to society …and just so everyone knows…they all work…there is no laziness in that part of the family….and I have known these wonderful people for 30 or more years….the marijuana that was being grown was for medicinal use period…..we voted as a state to give our citizens the right to grow or purchase their own medicine….CASE CLOSED
Well spoken!!
Maine’s Medical Marijuana Law was amended to allow for the term “usable amount of marijuana for medical use” to mean:
1. 2-1/2 ounces or less of harvested marijuana and;2. A total of 6 plants, of which no more than 3 may be mature, flowering plants.
If I read correctly, they had 1.4 lbs. and over 50 plants.
Actually there can be a total of 6 flowering with an unstated amount of plants in varing phases of growth in order to keep a patient with a constant supply at hand.
You may have read those figures correctly but that certainly does NOT mean they are correct!!!
A medical prescription for marijuana is not a license to cultivate it. If the pot heads want to smoke pot, buy it. CASE CLOSED!!!!