Girl Scout Camp Marijuana Farm Busted

Camp Officials Horrified To Learn That 5,000 Plants Had Been Found Growing On Their Grounds

(AP)  Police found thousands of marijuana plants being grown in a remote part of a Girl Scout camp, according to court documents and a scout official.

Officials at Camp Ella J. Logan were dismayed when they found out what had happened, said Sherri Weidman, chief executive of the Limberlost Girl Scout Council.

Police found the hidden marijuana farm with plants in various stages of cultivation in a wooded swampy area of Kosciusko County, according to documents filed Monday in U.S. District Court in South Bend. Some of the plants were growing on land belonging to a local resident, while the bulk - about 5,000 plants - were growing on camp land. State troopers in an airplane spotted the plots.

Mario Comacho, 44, Mariano Gonzales, 38, and a juvenile were arrested last week after police found the farm. Comacho and Gonzales, both of Goshen, appeared for an initial hearing Monday in federal court on charges of possession of more than 1,000 marijuana plants with the intent to distribute. Neither man had an attorney, according to court documents.

Johnny Coy, who owns part of the land where the pot was found growing, said he wasn't aware of the operation and rarely visits the swampy area.

Weidman said the area was in a remote part of the 220-acre camp accessible only by wading through the muck or taking a canoe. The land was bought by the council to provide a safety buffer, she said.

Parents of campers were informed of the discovery when they picked up their children.

[omega39-2009]

This really could have improved those cookies.

[Gary Kempf]

(AP) Police found thousands of marijuana plants being grown in a remote part of a Girl Scout camp, according to court documents and a scout official.

So is this why girl scout cookies are so popular? This is the secret ingredient?

[honestabe8]

Sure, the cookies would have improved, but the price would have gone through the roof

[fredhetz]

Can''t the authorities find a positive in this? What I mean is why not give a Girl Scout agricultural badge to the people who were arrested?

[cerberusii]

al right girls, this is called a ''blunt''. You first make sure that the leaves are properly dried and crushed in little pieces before you start to roll your joint...

[texanforlogi]

Weed and cookies--sounds like a match made in heaven to me!

[mgeg1]

It''s about time the girl scouts'' shady operations were unveiled. Now we just have to clamp down on the cub scouts'' coca fields.

[Gary Kempf]

It explains why the urge to watch "Up In Smoke" was stronger when eating their cookies....

[concorde5]

forget selling cookies or brownies, just sell the weed in $25 bags. That should increase profits for the Girl Scouts.

[re_evolve]

Weed and cookies--sounds like a match made in heaven to me!

Got milk?
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Posted by texanforlogi at 10:06 AM : Jul 16, 2008

[ianlou]

So what. The girl scouts were unaware of the plants,
If they saw them they did not know what they were.

If they did know what they were, the girl scouts have another problem.

[mswolfestock]

Well at least it was not a meth lab - that is something really dangerous.

And there''s nothing better than Girl Scout Cookies to calm your raving munchies, yummy, yummy!!!!!

[sean4567]

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[jtdev1]

Just think, if we legalize weed, then we reduce the crime and also generate tax money.

Everyone knows you can''t get violent while on weed, only the munchies...

[legacyabq]

Ha! They found a bunch of plants, which produce the most pharmaceutically safe drug known to man, with an unbelievably low ED/LD ratio. No one has ever died from exposure to THC. Only one study has shown brain damage, and the university involved later publicly condemned the scientist responsible, because he doctored the data. He was being financed by the government. How many liquour stores are in the same area? That stuff is poison. Pot should be legal. What a sad, pathetic society. Wear seatbelts, by lAW, cause you MIGHT get hurt... But let''s subsidize tobbacco, which contains Nitrosamine, one of the most dangerous carcinogens known to man. Perfectly legal. What a joke this "modern" society is..How does this stuff come to pass? How can we worship ignorance like a god??

[hwy71so]

Great!

First lesbos, now drugs. What''s the GSA coming to?

[rushman71]

Man, if only I could have experienced something similar back when I was a boy scout in the early ''80s. That would have been one of the best times in my life. Just thinking about it makes me want to roll one. Unfortunately I''m at work, with 6 more hours to go, and another hour and 20 minutes before I get home. Then I''ll grab a beer, roll up some of my ganja and smoke , and watch the Bill Murray movie "Meatballs"!!!

[superchez2]

Now those are some girl scout cookies I''d buy.

[susieq_13]

Cool! Wish I had found it first!

[eggy1620]

We%u2019ll soon see on eBay tickets to the Indiana State Police bonfire.

The government keeps shelling out money to the DEA for this ***. It will never end...we must take a stand

[jetlizhan]

no wonder that last box of girl scout cookies i bought was so *** good!!!

[daysrnumbrd]

Well, all the good comments that could be made about Girl Scout cookies, have already been made! It looks like I''ll just have to say...

...MORE PLEASE!

:-)

[displeased]

Too bad. We''ll release rapist and murderers to make room for these men over something the government wrongfully convinces the public as a great evil.

[rushman71]

If the girl scouts need to update their supply of "ingredients", maybe we could work out a bargain. HAHAHAHA

[texanforlogi]

I am glad I only allowed my daughters to join the Pioneer Girls, it was just like the Girl Scouts only they were Christian based and they didnt have Pot farms.


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Posted by GOP_forever at 11:22 AM : Jul 16, 2008

No pot farms for the Pioneer Girls--they only go hydroponic!

[dnamj]

Mmmm, Xtra special Girl Scout Cookies!!

[stevex47]

This is just limpbaughs and cindy McSame''s private stash.

[jamjholmes]

The war of drugs, like the war or terror our endless rackets. Gotta love our fascist country huh.

[hereticzero-2009]

A person is more in danger of being murdered by police during a no-knock raid at the wrong address looking for marijuana growers than by the growers themselves. Still it was bad judgment to use a childrens'' camp for a growing operation.

[loneeagle57]

AP) Police found thousands of marijuana plants being grown in a remote part of a Girl Scout camp, according to court documents and a scout official.
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Just what the hell were police doing in a remote part of a girl scout camp

[bobnjersey]

[Police found thousands of marijuana plants being grown in a remote part of a Girl Scout camp, according to court documents and a scout official. Johnny Coy, who owns part of the land where the pot was found growing, said he wasn''t aware of the operation and rarely visits the swampy area. ]

seize the property and all other assets remotely connected ... deem all in proximity as enemy combatants ... ask questions later ... and make the accused prove they didn''t know about it.

the new american jurisprudence ... presumption of guilt ... asset seizure ... burden is on the accused.

[loneeagle57]

maybe they should switch, forget about the cookies and start making brownies!

Posted by angryman55 at 09:53 AM : Jul 16, 2008
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You know how to become an Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America?
Ya got to eat a brownie!

[jgallaway81]

If a boy scout get shis eagle scout rank by eating a brownie, I guess we found out how a brownie becomes a girl scout... earning the agricultural badge!

[loneeagle57]

Hi little suzie what did you at camp this week?

Suzie: Grew pot.

[aggiekat2004]

Yeah, looking at the names of the people involved...were they illegal?? Gosh, maybe we should build a big wall and keep ALL immigrants out!!

[nssherlock1]

I knew there was something wonderful about those chocolate thin mints!

[loneeagle57]

cookies anyone?

[rushman71]

Got Brownies?

[loneeagle57]

not anymore someone stole my pot

[loneeagle57]

I still wonder why the police were in a remote section of a girl scout camp in the first place.

[loneeagle57]

I got it. They wanted the New improved Thin "mint" brownie!

[cheddarboy82]

god I love pot.

[honestabe8]

cheddarboy: the smell of it burning, the smell of it as you break up the bud...wowzer

[pmaldona]

when''s it gonna be legalized? I just got charged with possession the other day, SO STUPID! Something that can be grown in the earth and is safer to use than both cigarettes and alcohol (which are LEGAL) yet we''re still putting people in prison and giving them exorbitant fines? This country is going down the crapper, I''m thinking of moving to either Canada or europe.

[pmaldona]

ALSO: I second cheddarboy82....I love pot. =)

[shanev137]

Hilarious.

I have a new found respect for Girls Scouts now.

[honestabe8]

i concur

[gramto7]

I still wonder why the police were in a remote section of a girl scout camp in the first place.

Posted by loneeagle57 at 01:30 PM : Jul 16, 2008

If you are seriously asking, the article stated that the weed was spotted from the air.

[honestabe8]

ajk: what doesn''t?

[clevercandi]

when''''s it gonna be legalized?
Posted by pmaldona at 03:02 PM : Jul 16, 2008

"And the Lord God said, "Everything you need, I have given you." What could be more natural than pulling a weed out of the ground and smoking it?? :-)