On the night of September 9, Seattle police conducted an armed raid on a couple's home in the View Ridge neighborhood looking for pot, a police report shows.
Several members of the North Precinct Anti-Crime Teamâbearing Glock pistols and wearing ballistic helmets, eye protection, ballistic heavy vests, and appropriate drop gear, a police report saysâserved a narcotics search warrant at a house near the intersection of NE 65th Street 46th Ave NE.
After announcing their presence, officers entered the residence and and handcuffed a 50-year-old white man and a 49 year-old white woman. A search of the house turned up nearly 100 immature plants and 38 mature plants, the report continues. Police also found nine large bags of pot leaves, four large bags of bud, and three bags of seeds. In a coffee can, officers found $48,260.
The report notes that both individuals were unarmed. And it says nothing about finding weapons in the house, or why an armed night-time raid was necessary to apprehend a couple of pot growers.
Both suspects were booked into King County Jail. And police used their limited tax resources to once and for all eliminate the scourge the of marijuana in Seattle. Bravo.
