Paul Gifford, 47, was arrested and charged with manufacturing a controlled drug and possession of a controlled drug with intent to distribute. Police said 77 plants were found at 46 South Road, which they described an indoor growing operation.
According to a press release from the N.H. State Police Narcotics & Investigations Unit, a joint bust with the East Kingston Police Department carried out Tuesday by a search warrant turned up the plants, a firearm and processed marijuana.
Gifford was released Tuesday on $50,000 personal recognizance, according to state police. He is scheduled to be arraigned March 11 in Exeter District Court.
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The Portland Press Herald - Tues, Feb 15th, 2011 - PORTLAND — Federal prosecutors say an Oxford man has pleaded guilty to cultivating marijuana in the White Mountain National Forest.
Thirty-eight-year-old Todd Clukey pleaded guilty Monday before U.S. District Judge Brock Hornby in Portland.
Court records say that between May and September 2010, Clukey grew marijuana in the national forest in an unorganized portion of Oxford County. Officials say Clukey also admitted that he had grown marijuana on national forest land the previous two years.
Clukey, who remains free pending sentencing, faces a maximum possible sentence of five years imprisonment, a $500,000 fine, or both.
Are these guys kidding me? First of all, Paul Gifford was growing weed in his landscaping business that doubled as a residence?? No shit bro. Nice detective work. Every landscaping business/residence on the planet has weed growing in it, just like that dude down the street from me whose garage/kitchen is actually a meth lab. He knows this, I know this, the whole fucking neighborhood knows this. So next time, Gifford, stop shitting where you eat, and work, and sleep, and you get the idea.
Todd Clukey on the other hand, well he doesn't sound like he is hurting anybody. I mean the article doesn't say how much we are dealing with here, but it doesn't sound like Clukey was droppping a Ray Bourque of pot plants and $277,000 of this shit. It sounds more like Clukey was looking to grow a little bit of bud for him and his boys, but didn't want to do it in his back yard cause I mean, the guys isn't stupid. So, he takes a stroll into a national forest, cause who the fuck goes in there anyway right, and starts spreading the seed.
Seriously though, while both are equally dumb I can't help but have a bad feeling that Clukey is going to take the short end of the joint on this one. Gifford had a whole fucking operation going, and a firearm and all that shit. That was the big leagues even though poorly disguised. And while I don't know what kind of punishment the Giff is looking at, my man Clukey over here is maybe facing five years just cause he wanted to get stoned with his friends and used a tiny bit of unorganized national forest in the process. In the end he was just doing a little farming, I would have thought the people running a national forest would have acted a little more green.
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