Pubdate: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 Source: San Jose Mercury News (CA) Copyright: 2014 San Jose Mercury News Contact: http://www.mercurynews.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/390 Page: B12 EX- OFFICER SAYS SUPERIOR SET POT SEIZURE QUOTA A former police officer in Humboldt County is claiming that one of his superiors offered to buy dinner and drinks for members of a unit that investigates marijuana grows if they met a quota for seizing pot plants and money from cultivators. The Times- Standard of Eureka reported Saturday that former Arcata Police Department Officer Kevin Stonebarger made the allegation in a sworn declaration for a lawsuit brought by a widow who is suing the city over a 2011 raid at her home. Stonebarger says a sergeant promised the celebration that year if the department's Special Services Unit destroyed 10,000 marijuana plants and recovered $ 150,000 from people found to be growing weed illegally. A lawyer for the city, Nancy Delaney, denied any wrongdoing by police and accused Stonebarger of lying in the declaration. The Times-Standard says Stonebarger resigned from the force last year because of a knee injury. - --- MAP posted-by: Matt