DEA & Shorewood Cops Raid Woman’s Home After She Shops at Indoor Garden Center
From the article:
DEA agents rooted through a Shorewood woman’s garbage and stormed her home in an early morning raid after spotting her shopping at an indoor garden center they had been staking out.
The raid on Kirking’s house marked the culmination of a nearly month-long investigation that involved federal agents searching through her garbage and comparing her electric bill to those of a couple neighbors. In the end, police and prosecutors apparently believed they had enough to charge Kirking with nothing more than a pair of misdemeanors.
In a complaint for a search warrant, a DEA agent wrote that he was staking out Midwest Hydroganics on Sept. 17 because his previous surveillance there “led to the arrests of subjects for production of cannabis sativa plants and possession of cannabis.”
During his stakeout, the agent noticed Kirking “exit the front door of the store carrying a green plastic bag containing unknown items.”
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Gee how big of a bag did she buy? My electric bill was probably higher than my neighbors because in the spring I had to turn my air on earlier than others because one of my sons has asthma and he also slept with the air on plus a fan going.my husband has a CPAP. Gee guess im guilty til proven innocent.
I guess this fits the bill of “to serve and protect” [?] and
I’m sure the gardening store liked the free advertising, you know what they say, there’s no such thing as bad publicity………on the other hand………
This proves that judges rubber stamp police warrant requests.