Easy to spot pot nets charges in Sheboygan robbery
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 5:33 pm | By: Radical Russ
Easy to spot pot nets charges in Sheboygan robbery — chicagotribune.com
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. – A 28-year-old man reporting a burglary faces drug charges after responding officers say they found a marijuana pipe in his bedroom.A criminal complaint filed Tuesday says officers saw the pipe in plain view in Justin Luecke’s bedroom and found marijuana stems and seeds in the living room.
The complaint says officers later returned with a search warrant and found additional marijuana as well as a scale and marijuana packaging.
Luecke faces charges of felony marijuana possession and several misdemeanor counts. He could face up to 26 months behind bars, if convicted on all counts.
Plain view rule, dude. If you’re going to call the police to report a burglary and let them into your home, you must remove all evidence of marijuana that is in plain view.
But this does highlight another troubling aspect of cannabis prohibition. How much crime goes unreported because the victims are cannabis users? How many times do criminals sniff around neighborhoods, searching for a skunky smell, because they know they’ve got a victim less likely to call the cops, and they might score some weed in the process, too?
Not only does prohibition make criminals out of people who aren’t criminals, it hinders those people from calling the police on the real criminals!
