Monday, April 01, 2013

Whoops...wrong house??

I wonder how much money was wasted in this endeavor...anyone care to venture a guess???


SOURCE

SWAT Raids Home Over Hydroponic Equipment Purchase, Finds Tomatoes and Squash


Activist Post

Did you know that buying hydroponic growing equipment is now being used as probable cause for the government to raid your house? 

Neither did Bob and Addie Harte, a Kansas couple who were raided by SWAT without a warrant last April because the authorities took notice of their purchase of indoor gardening items.

The illegal raid turned up "just six plants -- three tomato plants, one melon plant and two butternut squash plants -- growing in the basement", and now the couple is suing the sheriff's department.

The Associated Press reports:
Two former CIA employees whose Kansashome was fruitlessly searched for marijuana during a two-state drug sweep claim they were illegally targeted, possibly because they had bought indoor growing supplies to raise vegetables.

Adlynn and Robert Harte sued this week to get more information about why sheriff's deputies searched their home in the upscale Kansas City suburb of Leawood last April 20 as part of Operation Constant Gardener.