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Title: Denver Police Running Out Of Space For Confiscated Marijuana
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CBS4 Denver
URL Source: http://denver.cbslocal.com/2016/10/ ... ace-for-confiscated-marijuana/
Published: Oct 3, 2016
Author: Kelly Werthmann
Post Date: 2016-10-04 15:26:37 by nolu chan
Keywords: None
Views: 354
Comments: 5
Denver Police Running Out Of Space For Confiscated Marijuana October 3, 2016 4:43 PM By Kelly Werthmann DENVER (CBS4) – Marijuana may be legal in Colorado, but the Denver Police Department is confiscating more weed than they ever have before. “Prior to the legalization with Amendment 64, we received small quantities of marijuana, maybe a couple ounces or a few pounds,” said Lt. Cliff Carney, who manages the evidence and property section for the department. “After 64, we’re seeing huge seizures the come in. We’ll get sometimes 300 to 400 boxes of marijuana at one time on one seizure.” Denver police are confiscating so much marijuana that Carney told CBS4 they are running out of space to store it. There are two storage rooms at the department’s headquarters downtown, but they are quickly filling up with processed pot, plants and other evidence. “We’re dealing with what we have,” Carney said. “We have a pretty good turnover so we don’t have to keep it forever, but we have to have a place to store it and process it to get rid of it.” In an effort to fix the problem, Denver police is asking the city for a little more than $125,000 to hire additional staff and purchase more shelving. “We’ve asked for more staffing to facilitate the property in the lab and composting facility,” Carney said. “We’ve asked for more storage devices to hold (the marijuana). We’ve already got money in the budget to compost, which is saving us quite a bit of money.” According to Carney, DPD is among the first departments to compost illegal marijuana plants, after the court approves the disposal. Confiscated plants don’t have a long shelf life and tend to start molding within a week or two, Carney explained. Marijuana that is processed and packaged can be kept for a longer period of time or returned to the person it was taken from, depending on what the courts determine to do with it. As for why authorities are seizing more marijuana now than before it was legal, Carney said he can only speculate. “Because it is now legal in certain quantities, people nowadays believe they can exceed those quantities and there’d be no prosecution, that it’s not criminal,” he said. “We used to see 15 to 20 plants at a time being seized at a small grow, now we’ll see it in the hundreds, even thousands at warehouses.”
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#1. To: nolu chan (#0)
Seems like it would be a lot cheaper to burn it. Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. if you look around, we have gone so far down the the rat hole, the almighty is going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah, if we don't have a judgement come down on us. President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood "I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
Swell idea. Fuck pot.
They can't destroy it until a court approves destruction of the evidence.
Seems like it would be a lot cheaper to burn it. They could hire some libertarians to guard it. They'd probably even do it for free as a public service. Non auro, sed ferro, recuperando est patria
Why not hire this guy? New Mexico Cop Recorded Himself on Body Camera Stealing Drugs and Cash for Girlfriend Normally cops “forget” to turn their body cams on right before they do something illegal. For Sergeant Roshern McKinney, a Grants, New Mexico police officer, it worked the opposite way. Instead of it “malfunctioning” right before he beat and/or shot someone, he inadvertently recorded himself stealing marijuana from the police station. The video also showed him taking it to his girlfriend’s house and then engaging in a celebratory game of grab ass with her. The fun didn’t last long, though. Not only has he been busted for the “Bad Apples Gone Wild” video, but during the investigation of that some additional “behind the scenes” extras were uncovered. Apparently, this isn’t the first rodeo he stole drugs from and he’s also being accused of making off with almost $800 in cash. " Denver police is asking the city for a little more than $125,000 to hire additional staff and purchase more shelving "
#2. To: Stoner (#1)
Seems like it would be a lot cheaper to burn it.
#3. To: Stoner (#1)
Seems like it would be a lot cheaper to burn it.
#4. To: Stoner (#1)
" Denver police is asking the city for a little more than $125,000 to hire additional staff and purchase more shelving "
#5. To: nativist nationalist (#4)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
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