In The Maine News

cerberus

cerberus

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right?!
I thought the same thing, !

"Police arrested John Pond and seized 80 marijuana plants and 2 pounds of processed pot."
"That led investigators to a much bigger bust."

god damn, someones getting an ass kicking is my guess..
 
Bluejeans

Bluejeans

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Another tidbit I noticed from this article...the 1000 plants valued at $400,000... that's only $400 a plant. Even *I* can do better than that! Don't they typically use a figure closer to $2000 a plant? In which case, this should have been reported as a $2 million bust...Wonder why the discrepancy?
 
cerberus

cerberus

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maybe and huge maybe; it was a sog grow which is 3 plants p/sq foot, which would explain the high numbers. in this method it's the sheer number of plants that yeilds you, at 1-1.25z per. again this is totally a guess i don't know any of the facts. its a pretty old school way of doing it and most people I hear of steere clear of it, high high risk to reward situation.. :/
or maybe, they use a lower dollar value for street prices? (why!?)

neither of these would account for why the ME sherriffs didn't go with the higher number to boost their own success numbers, still weird.

good eye blue, i don't know why they went with such a low dollar value..
 
Bluejeans

Bluejeans

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cerberus said:
maybe and huge maybe; it was a sog grow which is 3 plants p/sq foot, which would explain the high numbers. in this method it's the sheer number of plants that yeilds you, at 1-1.25z per. again this is totally a guess i don't know any of the facts. its a pretty old school way of doing it and most people I hear of steere clear of it, high high risk to reward situation.. :/
or maybe, they use a lower dollar value for street prices? (why!?)

neither of these would account for why the ME sherriffs didn't go with the higher number to boost their own success numbers, still weird.

good eye blue, i don't know why they went with such a low dollar value..
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I have always thought that the LEO calculations of street value per plant were painfully overblown...That's why it struck me as very odd about this one. This one is actually probably closer to reality...think about it. Most "home op" growers average 1-2 oz per plant. At the average caregiver rate of $200-$220 per ounce, the $400 per plant calcuation passes the "reality" test, unlike the $2k per plant they typically report.

I'm thinking Ryder knew somebody important...
 
Maine Brookies

Maine Brookies

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5 will get you 10 that 80% of the "plants" were unrooted cuts that won't count against the guy at trial. 200 plants * $2,000 = $400k.
 
cerberus

cerberus

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ohh snap that might be it. and the overblew the numbers to make a good story, per SOP..

nice call brookies
 
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