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Bonnie's Incompetence Knows no bounds:
from raiding/robbing/falsely-accusing/illegally-arresting/punishing legal
medical cannabis patients, to stupidly arresting and prosecuting simple bong sellers, this monster is just a piece of trash.
A disgrace to her gender, her race, her sexual preference, and all humanity, she is human garbage. What, you say, you are
too harsh. Read it and weep. All of it....then please please please try to reason with us if you feel differently. All we
ask is you make an attempt, even a small one, to use logic, and if you are so bold, to invoke the law, religion, basic decency,
or something, to back your thoughts up. The FACTS ARE CLEAR, she is a liar, a conniving pawn of the religious right who sneer
at "her kind" in private, but use her as their pit bull, their enforcer.
Here's a little tiny bit of
the latest we've discovered about her. Its just the tip of the iceberg, read the rest if you have the time and patience
to absorb the enormity of her crimes.
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http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/sdcounty/article_53b99192-5206-5a7d-93\
39-0289e9225472.html
North County Times (San Diego)
REGION: Raided smoke shops back in business
It's
still easy to buy pipes, bongs in North County
By SARAH GORDON
sgordon@nctimes.com
Posted: Saturday, November 21, 2009 4:15 pm
Last December, dozens of police and
deputies raided 11 North County head shops and smoke shops, seizing thousands of smoking devices and citing
the clerks who sold them for allegedly
furnishing drug paraphernalia.
At that time, law enforcement leaders and mayors from Vista, Escondido and San Marcos said the crackdown
signaled the region's refusal to
continue pretending that pipes and bongs, which are commonly used for smoking pot, were for legal tobacco use.
A year later, it's still easy to buy
a bong in North County, and many of the raided shops are operating much as they were.
Deputy District Attorney Damon Mosler, chief of narcotics prosecutions at
the time of the raids, acknowledged the operation was a limited
success. He said they did remove some pipes and bongs from shelves and forced at least one Vista
shop to close. And shopkeepers who sell the
devices know they do so at their peril, with raids and arrests possible at any time.
But it remains unclear whether prosecutors
can prove that selling pipes and bongs is a crime, or if raiding and citing shops that sell them is
legal. A North County judge ruled that
some search warrants filed in the operation failed to establish that a crime was occurring at the shops.
He ordered thousands of seized
devices returned.
And it is uncertain whether more raids are planned. Mosler is no longer with the DA's narcotics unit,
and a deputy district attorney with the
unit who handled many of the North County prosecutions, David McNees, said the unit has, for now, shifted its
attention to medical marijuana
dispensaries.
The crackdown
In December 2008, after consulting with prevention groups and police, Mosler said he became convinced
the shops were, in fact, breaking the
law.
To
avoid trouble, they post signs declaring the merchandise is for smoking tobacco, and clerks are usually well-trained
to eject anyone who
talks
about pot in the shops, he said. But the stores often have names that reference the drug culture, and they sometimes
sell T-shirts,
magazines
or posters celebrating marijuana. Those things are legal, but they show the pipes are intended for drug use, Mosler said.
And, Mosler said, there was wide community
support for trying to rein in the stores.
In last year's operation, the DA's office sent letters to 20 shops in Escondido, San Marcos,
and Vista warning them they were subject to
prosecution if they continued selling drug paraphernalia.
An undercover detective from the Narcotics Task Force later entered
the shops, Mosler said. Nine shops, mostly mom-and-pop tobacco shops that
had stocked a few incidental marijuana pipes, had complied.
But search warrants subsequently were
served at seven shops in Escondido, two in Vista and two in San Marcos, and 11 clerks were cited
after they sold pipes to the undercover detective,
the prosecutor said.
Mosler said he could not quantify the cost of the raids, but he called them relatively small-scale. Two detectives
visited the shops, and
several
dozen deputies or officers and some non-sworn personnel worked in Vista, Escondido and San Marcos over two days, according
to
participating
agencies. Officers served search warrants, cited clerks and spent about a half-day at each shop packaging and seizing
products.
Mosler said
that overall, he thought the raids and prosecutions were
worthwhile.
He pointed to the tobacco shops that stopped selling marijuana pipes
after a warning. One Vista shop, Odyssey Smoke Shop, shut its
doors
after
its merchandise was seized and has not reopened.
Mosler said getting businesses to change requires ongoing enforcement.
He said more smoke shop citations and raids could happen
if law
enforcement
and city leaders make that a priority.
Escondido Special Investigations Unit Lt. Craig Carter said nine local
shops are facing another enforcement action. He said the
shops are
operating
illegally and have been warned to expect police.
Vista sheriff's Capt. Tim Curran and Sgt. Dave Schaller, with the San
Marcos sheriff's community-oriented policing team, said there
are no
plans
for more operations in their cities.
Curran said he believed Vista currently has no retail head shops.
Searches illegal
Any future operations would have to be more thorough, Mosler
acknowledged. He said mistakes in detective work and
the search warrants
he signed helped some shops reopen.
And it is still not clear whether the shops are breaking the law. None
of last year's cases went before a jury.
In March, a North County judge ruled that about 4,000
seized items must
be returned to the owners of Escondido's Smokin' Glass store on Felicita
Road, and Vishions on El Norte Parkway, after Attorney
Richard Barnett
successfully
argued the search warrants and seizures were illegal.
The judge ruled that the items had been improperly seized, and that the
search warrant affidavits in the operation had not established
probable
cause
to believe a crime was occurring in the shops, court documents
show.
In a court motion, Barnett argued that the search warrants served at
head shops across North County shared a weak, boilerplate explanation
that the stores sold items that could
be used to smoke marijuana.
"But
selling paraphernalia that could be used to smoke marijuana is not
a crime under California law," he said.
An undercover detective purchased pipes at the shops, but
he and the
clerks
never talked about marijuana, Barnett said.
Without that discussion, or other evidence, there was not cause to
believe the clerk should have known the pipes would be used
for drugs,
rather
than smoking tobacco, the motion argued.
Barnett also said there was no evidence in the search warrant that the
stores' stock was illegal drug paraphernalia, subject to
seizure.
The state's
Health and Safety code defines drug paraphernalia as
products, designed or marketed for drug use, he said.
The shops, he argued, market the pipes for tobacco use.
Proving the charges
Mosler said prosecutors have learned their lesson. In the
future, he
said,
detectives must gather more evidence to demonstrate that the
clerks and the shops know they are selling the devices for marijuana
use. Such evidence can come from "experts,"
who testify about the shops'
real purpose, the shop names and ancillary products that reference
marijuana, he said.
A jury has never weighed in on any of the cases resulting from
last
year's
raids in the North County, East County and South Bay, Mosler
said.
Nine of the 11 North County clerks cited for furnishing drug
paraphernalia settled their cases with the district attorney's office,
agreeing to probation or drug classes,
mostly in return for expunged
charges. One clerk never showed up to court; a bench warrant for his
arrest was issued.
Attorney Isaac Blumberg represented two clerks cited in last
year's
operation.
They agreed to plead guilty to disturbing the peace and
received a sentence of probation. Blumberg said he's not sure a
prosecutor could have proven those clerks were knowingly
furnishing drug
paraphernalia.
"I think we could have gone forward to a jury
trial and forced this
issue," he said.
It
appears one person may be doing that.
Frederick Danielsen, 47, was charged with furnishing drug paraphernalia
at the now-closed Odyssey Smoke Shop on East Vista Way
in Vista.
Neither
Danielsen nor his lawyer could be reached for this story.
Court records show Danielsen is scheduled for a jury trial Dec. 7.
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Call staff writer Sarah Gordon at 760-740-3517.
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