Ex-CIA Agents Suing After Cops Screw Up 4/20 Marijuana Raid (VIDEO)

LEAWOOD, KS –  Johnson County Sheriff’s Deputies stormed into the home of Adlynn and Robert Harte searching for marijuana on April 20th 2012, but all they found were some innocent tomato plants. The couple believes they were illegally targeted after purchasing indoor hydroponic systems to raise vegetables. They’re now considering making this lawsuit into a federal civil rights case.

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Sheriff’s Deputies issued a sweep of their home after acquiring a search warrant due to the purchase of equipment that allows gardeners to grow plants indoors. The lawsuit reads, “With little or no other evidence of any illegal activity, law enforcement officers make the assumption that shoppers at the store are potential marijuana growers, even though the stores are most commonly frequented by backyard gardeners who grow organically or start seedlings indoors.”

The owner of the store stated that he was unhappy that his customers were being watched, “Why should they be?” asked Bennie Palmentere. “This isn’t a communist country.”

Robert had purchased the hydroponics as part of a project with his son. During the sweep, officers reportedly told the Hartes that they had been under surveillance for months. The couple claimed they “know of no basis for conducting such surveillance, nor do they believe such surveillance would have produced any facts supporting the issuance of a search warrant.” The couple claims that the police accused their son of using marijuana during the raid.

The lawsuit notes that the couple were former CIA agents who had to pass rigorous background checks in order to qualify for employment in Washington D.C.



6 comments

Garett Anderson November 12, 2013 at 9:57 pm

The police need to pay when they fuck up liike this, AND IT NEEDS TO HURT THEM OR THEY WILL KEEP DOING IT!

MOLON LABE November 12, 2013 at 9:59 pm

Good!!! Jobs should be lost over this, and, the judge who issued the warrant should have his law license revoked. Stand up to the Gestapo-like tactics of this “judicial system” of the US

Garett Anderson November 12, 2013 at 10:01 pm

When cops screw up like this they need to pay, and it needs to hurt them on a personal level or they will just keep doing it.

Chris November 12, 2013 at 10:31 pm

People ask me “What civil liberties have you really lost? “Everything is fine” Sure it is, until you are the guy who has his Fourth Amendment rights trampled by over stepping cops and judges. I feel like the African American community is… shaking their heads at whites and saying guess what people? this has been happening to us for years, did you really think that it would stop there, did you really think it would only be black folk who had to deal with this erosion of the Constitution?

rygg November 13, 2013 at 3:58 am

That’s the danger of complacency. It’s easier and easier every year for them to have a reason on the books to cart a person away. People’s attitude of “nothing to hide so nothing to fear” is infuriating as a result. Ideally, if a person doesn’t value their rights or their privacy, it wouldn’t hurt another person. The government makes sure that is not the case.

Mother, should I trust the gov November 13, 2013 at 4:59 am

I had my dog shot in a raid on my home, under very similar circumstances. I was awarded $250,000 from the City of Detroit.

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