The Texas Police sent out a SWAT team on a massive SWAT raid of an organic farm in Arlington Texas, where they held the farmers under siege for 10 hours, and found?!?! Hit the jump to find out!
Police officials began an investigation of a small organic farm in Arlington , Texas after receiving a “number of complaints” by worried neighbors, who were:
“concerned that the conditions” at the farm “interfere with the useful enjoyment of their properties and are detrimental to property values and community appearance”.
The SWAT team held a mass raid that included the intensive 10 hour search and siege of the Garden Eden farm, where they held its residents at gun point for at least a half-hour. Their “intentions” were to find contraband, yet what did they leave with? Bundles of…….. Organic goodies!
“The police seized “17 blackberry bushes, 15 okra plants, 14 tomatillo plants … native grasses and sunflowers”.
The SWAT team raided the farm with search warrants for marijuana plants, yet farm and property within the area declared to the NBC news station that they believed the real reason for the raid was to ensure code enforcement. Authorities have provided citations to the farm in regards to:
“grass that was too tall, bushes growing too close to the street, a couch and piano in the yard, chopped wood that was not properly stacked, a piece of siding that was missing from the side of the house, and generally unclean premises,” Shellie Smith the owner of the farm, stated.
“The raid on the Garden of Eden farm appears to be the latest example of police departments using SWAT teams and paramilitary tactics to enforce less serious crimes. A Fox television affiliate reported this week, for example, that police in St. Louis County, Mo., brought out the SWAT team to serve an administrative warrant. The report went on to explain that all felony warrants are served with a SWAT team, regardless whether the crime being alleged involves violence”.
Via HuffPost
