MINDEN TOWNSHIP — Following an investigation, police recently seized more than 50 pounds of medical marijuana and 31 marijuana plants at a Minden Township home.
On Sept. 28, the Sanilac County Drug Task Force (DTF) executed a search warrant on Maurer Road in Minden Township. The investigation was a follow-up on violations of medical marijuana laws discovered during a separate criminal event in May.
In May, investigators observed violations of medical marijuana laws at a residential grow site, which was discovered while DTF was assisting the Sanilac County Sheriff’s Uniform Division on a breaking and entering complaint at the same location on Maurer Road.
The residents were advised of the corrected measure needed to be compliant with the current medical marijuana laws.
DTF investigators found numerous violations, some of which were previously found in need of correction and not done, of the medical marijuana laws, including access by subjects not licensed to handle or use marijuana along with a quantity of over 55 pounds of processed marijuana — much of it located in a freezer in the living room of the home.
The violations discovered on Sept. 28 resulted in police seizing 55 pounds of marijuana, 31 marijuana plants and growing equipment used to produce the marijuana.
A 62-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman have not yet been charged with the related crimes. Four residents from the Ubly and New Baltimore areas were found tending plants or in the grow area and face charges of various criminal marijuana violations pending review by the prosecutor’s office and lab analysis reports. None of them four had any medical marijuana permits.
Law enforcement was previously involved with criminal investigations at the same location in November 2016 where the homeowner/family filed a complaint involving robbery by gunpoint and theft of medical marijuana.
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