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 Wonderland420
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 Lawmen seize marijuana
#7285864 - 08/11/07 10:54 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Lawmen seize marijuana
Saturday, 11 August 2007
Deputies from the Saline County Sheriff’s Office and wildlife officers from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission found approximately 100 marijuana plants with a street value of more than $100,000 and 43 plastic bags of what appeared to be marijuana in an outdoor freezer at the home a Paron man on Friday. Deputies from the Saline County Sheriff’s Office and wildlife officers from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission found approximately 100 marijuana plants with a street value of more than $100,000 and 43 plastic bags of what appeared to be marijuana in an outdoor freezer at the home a Paron man on Friday.
The lawmen made the find after receiving information that marijuana plants were being grown on the property.
After confirmed visually by Game and Fish Commission officers, a search warrant was executed on the home of Kenneth Lee Slade, 55, of 16731 Slade Road in Paron. They found the marijuana along with a loaded rifle, 33 rattlesnake skins, five live rattlesnakes and 56 frozen rattlesnakes in the same freezer with the bags of marijuana.
According to Detective Daniel Dodson of the Saline County Sheriff’s Department, during interviews with Slade he wouldn’t give a reason to why he had so many rattlesnakes in the freezer, but did say that the he was getting prepared to set up booby traps.
“He told [officers] that we arrived there earlier than he expected,” Dodson said. “He said that his intent was to take several [officers] out before we took him out.”
Slade was taken to the Saline County jail and charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, simultaneous possession of a firearm and drugs, terroristic threatening in the first degree and manufacturing a controlled substance.
“I am very proud of the deputies and wildlife officers for their work in this case,” said Saline County Sheriff Phil Mask. “I thank the Arkansas Game and Fish wildlife officers for their participation and for the large number of officers they provided.”
Nine wildlife officers participated in the drug raid along with ten deputies of the Sheriff’s Department. The wildlife officers said that they are considering state and federal charges against Slade for the seized the rattlesnakes and skins.
Deputies also served an arrest warrant on Slade for manufacturing a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver that stemmed from a raid on Slade’s property on August 23, 2006.
In 2006 after observing marijuana plants from a helicopter flying overhead, officers of the Saline County Sheriff’s Department found 350 marijuana plants worth approximately $350,000 and thirty pounds of finished marijuana product drying in the barn and packed in a freezer but Slade fled the residence before the deputies arrived.
“The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission has continuously helped us every time we have requested their assistance in drug raids, missing person searches, and manhunts,” Mask said. “This is the second time we busted Slade in a year and I am working with [Saline County] Prosecuting Attorney Ken Casady to make sure Slade is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
http://www.bentoncourier.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7871
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