Thursday, May 21, 2009

Indoor Growing Equipment Invoice Bust of David Mayo - Operation Green Thumb

I mentioned the story regarding Grand Rapids Press reporter, David Mayo, back in March in a post titled Need Hydroponic Growing Equipment? - Pay Cash or Get Busted.  In that post, I noted that the main basis for the search warrant issued to raid Mayo’s home was invoices which showed that Mayo had purchased hydroponic growing equipment, and I wondered how Michigan police obtained copies of invoices which showed such a purchase.  From my initial post.

“Operation Green Thumb has access to shipping invoices from suppliers who advertise their indoor marijuana-growing equipment in magazines such as ‘High Times.’

So, what, exactly is this “Operation Green Thumb?”  If you Google operation green thumb, you are supplied with links for community gardening projects, and other individual posts wondering just what and whom, exactly, this Operation Green Thumb is all about.

Well, some additional information has come out regarding this Operation Green Thumb in the most recent article within the Grand Rapids Press regarding David Mayo which is titled Attorney for suspended Press sports columnist David Mayo argues police violated rights when they searched home for drugs.  From the article.

In a motion filed Wednesday, Block said police relied on Operation Greenthumb, a “mysterious and a heretofore unknown ‘data’ source” in Appalachia, Tenn., which has access to shipping invoices from suppliers that advertise in the pro-marijuana magazine.

There is little doubt, in my mind, that this “mysterious and a heretofore unknown ‘data’ source” in Appalachia, Tenn.” is none other than some state funded entity dreamed up for the “war on drugs” which is probably operating illegally.

More importantly, for David Mayo and his wife anyway, because the government acknowledges that said invoices may not be used as evidence, due to their mysterious nature, the initial search warrant should be ruled as illegal, any evidenced obtained from Mayo’s home should be ruled inadmissable, and all charges against David Mayo and his wife should be dropped.

I guess we will find out shortly.

Posted by John Venlet on 05/21 at 01:42 PM
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