KAILUA-KONA — A search warrant at a home in the Kona Palisades yielded hundreds of marijuana plants, officials confirmed Wednesday.
KAILUA-KONA — A search warrant at a home in the Kona Palisades yielded hundreds of marijuana plants, officials confirmed Wednesday.
According to Hawaii Police, the Kona Vice Section served the warrant on the residence at the 73-1000 block of Kaiminani Drive at 11:05 a.m. on Monday. During the search, officers found 368 marijuana plants, 30 pounds of dried marijuana, a digital scale, Ziploc bags with marijuana inside and other items.
Police also recovered $9,000 in cash and an unregistered firearm.
A 48-year-old man who resides in the Palisades home was initially arrested on a charge of first-degree commercial promotion of marijuana however, he was released pending further investigation.
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Caught Red Handed and released? Oh I don’t live here. Oh OK. See your later have a good day.
Arresting anyone for plant is ridiculous we need to save room for real criminals who steal, and or violent.
yes, it’s called making a living.
State will not make rules for “legal” cannabis herb. Still loves the boot on neck approach.
The $9000.00 in cash is but a sliver of what could be recovered. Seize the property and forfeit to the government. Do it.
This is the dumbest comment I’ve read. Go back to your pills and alcohol and beating your wife, or get something that is natural and is been in every culture for thousands of years
They were stupid. You can smell it when you drove by that house. I know for a fact there are no skunks being run over on the Big Island.
One house out of a thousand big deal.