Pubdate: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 Source: Chronicle Herald (CN NS) Copyright: 2004 The Halifax Herald Limited Contact: http://www.herald.ns.ca/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/180 Author: Brian Medel, Yarmouth Bureau Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada) Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?216 (CN Police) RCMP SEARCH UPSETS ACCUSED Damage To Garden, Loss Of Guns Angers Alleged Dope Trafficker WEYMOUTH MILLS - Digby rural RCMP made quite a haul last Friday when they dismantled a Weymouth Mills marijuana operation. Roger J. Hill, 50, was arrested at his home on the Sissiboo Road on Friday afternoon after waking up from a nap. He went for a ride to the Digby RCMP detachment along with 38 of his rifles and shotguns while officers searched his property. Police seized more than $2,000 in cash found on Mr. Hill and in his house. Officers used a search warrant to look over the property. They found more than four kilograms of marijuana buds, five kilograms of pruned and packaged marijuana ready for processing, 3.5 kilograms of marijuana leaves and 18 kilograms of marijuana clippings in the house, in a shed and on the property. Three other people were detained at the scene and later released. Mr. Hill was charged with possession of more than three kilograms of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking and was released on a promise to appear in Digby provincial court on Nov. 15. Additional drug and firearms charges are pending. Monday, Mr. Hill stood in his yard and pondered the police action. It seemed to him like the Mounties were after things like guns and roses in addition to marijuana after they dug up some of his flowering front yard shrubs, he said. "I was lying down," he recalled about the Friday afternoon raid. "I had just got up and I thought I heard something but the water was running. "I heard this thump and I said 'Wait a minute.' They hollered 'Police' and thumped and they kicked the door in." The RCMP said they had a search warrant. One officer pulled the starter cord on Mr. Hill's garden tiller and went to work on his potato patch. "They tilled all that," he said. "They tilled this one over here. They tilled my cucumbers under." Mr. Hill said he had a look at the search warrant and it said police could search his place for drugs, not pick his potatoes. "They never asked me if they could use my tiller," he said. "I can't see the point in that." Police also dug up his onion beds and checked out his carrots and parsnips. Then they took a look through the henhouse as well as the house. "They took a hundred and some dollars that my young feller had in his bedroom and they took $800 that (his wife) had saved to fill the oil barrel and pay the taxes." Mr. Hill referred to himself as a disabled clam digger who can't work. But he likes to garden. In addition to growing things, he also likes to hunt. That's why he's miffed that his guns were taken. He conceded they were unregistered but said they were locked and behind closed doors. "No one who came in the house could see my guns," he said. - --- MAP posted-by: Derek