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SheikCorp
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Clerk who smelled pot on man’s tax payment called police(OR)
#8000118 - 02/09/08 01:15 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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A man arrested in December for growing 230 marijuana plants inside his south Corvallis home was sentenced Wednesday to 16 months in prison. Eric Brian Michaelis, 37, agreed to forfeit more than $65,000 seized by authorities.
Law enforcement officials said the drug bust may have been the largest indoor marijuana-growing operation in Benton County history. And it all started when an alert Benton County tax clerk noticed that the $600 in cash that Michaelis used to pay his taxes smelled an awful lot like marijuana.
“It’s safe to say that it’s at least the biggest indoor marijuana bust in the last 10 years,” said Chief Deputy District Attorney Chris Stringer. “The “Icebreaker” case (last summer) yielded more total cash forfeitures, but this is the largest from a single individual.”
Michaelis pleaded guilty to manufacturing a controlled substance and forfeited $65,600 that was found when police searched his home and a rented storage unit. The Benton County District Attorney’s Office agreed to drop an additional charge of drug possession in the plea bargain.
“I made a mistake,” Michaelis said in court Wednesday. “I knew my first night in jail that I was never going to do it again.”
Deputies were tipped off by a county tax clerk, who said that the $600 in cash that Michaelis used to pay his property tax bill smelled like marijuana.
When two detectives went to Michaelis’ home on Nov. 29, they reported that the smell of marijuana was overwhelming, even from the outside. Four days later, detectives from the Benton County Sheriff’s Office and Corvallis Police Department’s joint Street Crimes Unit served a search warrant at Michaelis’ house at 525 S.E. Bridgeway Ave.
Inside they found almost every room in the three-bedroom house — with the exception of the kitchen, living room and bathroom — filled with marijuana plants, from seedlings to bushes that were four feet tall. They seized more than five pounds of dried marijuana and $2,933 in cash.
The operation included a back-up generator to power the grow lamps in case the electricity went out.
Michaelis cooperated with investigators at the time, but he reportedly did not tell them he had rented a Corvallis storage unit, where he stored more equipment and a safe.
A receipt seized during the search of Michaelis’ home listed him as the renter of a storage unit at Crystal Lake Public Storage. After obtaining a search warrant, investigators who went there the same day found more equipment and a safe, which contained several neat stacks of cash, amounting to $62,700, all labeled and stored in plastic freezer bags.
In court Wednesday, Circuit Court Judge Janet Holcomb said that Michaelis had cooperated with investigators and that he did not have a prior criminal record. But she said that his illegal actions still had consequences for society.
“A lot of lives have been unfulfilled because of drugs and alcohol,” Holcomb said. “You played a part in that.”
Michaelis was sentenced to 16 months in prison, to be followed by two years of parole and drug treatment counseling.
Thirty percent to 40 percent of the cash goes to the seizing agency, the Benton County Sheriff’s Office, and the rest is distributed among state and local drug prevention programs, Stringer said. http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2008/02/08/news/community/4aaa02_growop.txt
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Re: Clerk who smelled pot on man’s tax payment called police(OR) [Re: SheikCorp]
#8000126 - 02/09/08 01:17 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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 That is all they need to get a search warrant? Wow.
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Re: Clerk who smelled pot on man’s tax payment called police(OR) [Re: robbyberto]
#8000143 - 02/09/08 01:23 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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How do you smell weed on money?
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Re: Clerk who smelled pot on man’s tax payment called police(OR) [Re: Shamanintraining]
#8000179 - 02/09/08 01:34 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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how do they know it was he that made it smell like pot?
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“A lot of lives have been unfulfilled because of drugs and alcohol
i hate how they separate alcohol as if its not a drug.
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Re: Clerk who smelled pot on man’s tax payment called police(OR) [Re: Shamanintraining]
#8000183 - 02/09/08 01:35 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: Clerk who smelled pot on man’s tax payment called police(OR) [Re: SheikCorp]
#8000193 - 02/09/08 01:38 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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SheikCorp said: “A lot of lives have been unfulfilled because of drugs and alcohol,” Holcomb said. “You played a part in that.”[/url]
This pisses me off... who is she to say what kind of life is "unfulfilled"??
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SheikCorp
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Re: Clerk who smelled pot on man’s tax payment called police(OR) [Re: Shamanintraining]
#8000194 - 02/09/08 01:39 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Shamanintraining said: How do you smell weed on money?
You inhale through your nose.....
some home boy probably kept the herb with his cash.... kept it in the same bag or in a safe, maybe just had it sitting out in the open in his house. I don't know.. But weed stinks and money absorbs that.
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Re: Clerk who smelled pot on man’s tax payment called police(OR) [Re: boxcarguy07]
#8000296 - 02/09/08 02:04 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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boxcarguy07 said:
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SheikCorp said: “A lot of lives have been unfulfilled because of drugs and alcohol,” Holcomb said. “You played a part in that.”[/url]
This pisses me off... who is she to say what kind of life is "unfulfilled"??
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Re: Clerk who smelled pot on man’s tax payment called police(OR) [Re: frisky_]
#8000314 - 02/09/08 02:08 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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does this guy smell all the money that he comes in contact with?
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Re: Clerk who smelled pot on man’s tax payment called police(OR) [Re: learningtofly]
#8000515 - 02/09/08 02:54 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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learningtofly said: does this guy smell all the money that he comes in contact with?

A lot of cash has cocaine on it...
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#8000537 - 02/09/08 03:00 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: Clerk who smelled pot on man’s tax payment called police(OR) [Re: Chemy]
#8000688 - 02/09/08 03:43 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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hmmm...i wonder how the guy who popped him knew what weed smells like?
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Re: Clerk who smelled pot on man’s tax payment called police(OR) [Re: itsthedank]
#8000857 - 02/09/08 04:20 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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itsthedank said: hmmm...i wonder how the guy who popped him knew what weed smells like?
come on man... just about everyone knows what weed smells like nowadays.
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Re: Clerk who smelled pot on man’s tax payment called police(OR) [Re: THEBats]
#8001117 - 02/09/08 05:01 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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^i know some people who are completely oblivious to the stench of weed...but maybe thats just me
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Re: Clerk who smelled pot on man’s tax payment called police(OR) [Re: SheikCorp]
#8001516 - 02/09/08 06:08 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Eric Brian Michaelis, 37, agreed to forfeit more than $65,000 seized by authorities.
Agreed? AGREED? AGREED!?
No, it was coercion pure and simple.
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Re: Clerk who smelled pot on man’s tax payment called police(OR) [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#8003666 - 02/10/08 04:45 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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> “A lot of lives have been unfulfilled because of drugs and alcohol,” Holcomb said. “You played a part in that.”
Oh that is rich... a Judge, that has ruined how many lives sending non-violent "criminals" to prison for growing a plant or putting something into their own body, has the audacity to scold somebody else for "playing a part in that". Holcomb needs to take a long look in a clear mirror.
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