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| OSP Seizes More than 100 Marijuana Plants in Clatskanie area | ||
| 12/27/2006 | ||
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Sergeant Larry Lucas Oregon State Police - St. Helens Office: (503) 397-0325 Grant Higginson, M.D. Administrator - Office of Community Health and Health Planning Phone: (971) 673-1132 Oregon State Police, following up on a tip from Washington State Patrol (WSP), seized approximately 105 marijuana plants Friday afternoon from a Clatskanie-area residence. The property resident was not arrested and the case is being referred to the Columbia County District Attorney's Office for consideration of possible charges. On December 22, 2006, WSP troopers stopped a 2006 Dodge Ram pickup driven by DARREL R. LUNDEEN, age 58, from Clatskanie, for a speed violation southbound on Interstate 205 near milepost 35. During the stop, WSP troopers subsequently arrested LUNDEEN on drug-related charges after finding individual packages of marijuana totaling 175 grams as well as drug paraphernalia. WSP contacted Columbia Enforcement Narcotics Team Oregon State Police Detective Jeromy Hasenkamp with information that LUNDEEN admitted to growing marijuana at his Clatskanie home to give to people for medical purposes. Detective Hasenkamp, along with Oregon State troopers and Clatskanie police, went to LUNDEEN's residence in the 15000 block of River Front Road in Clatskanie. LUNDEEN consented to a search of his residence where troopers seized approximately 105 marijuana plants in various stages of growth that were above-and-beyond the number of plants an individual is allowed to possess under Oregon law. LUNDEEN, who is registered to grow medical marijuana, was not taken into custody in Oregon. The case is being forwarded to the Columbia County District Attorney's Office for consideration of charges. Under Oregon's Medical Marijuana Act, which became law through a ballot initiative in 1998, a person who grows marijuana for a patient must be registered through the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program (OMMP) and is required to have a grow site card displayed. The authorized person is limited to growing marijuana for up to 4 patients, and is limited to growing 18 seedlings or starts and 6 mature plants per patient. The seized marijuana plants were those above the number LUNDEEN was authorized to grow under the OMMP. There currently are 11,104 patients in Oregon with medical marijuana permits. More information about the OMMP can be found on the Web at http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/ph/ommp/about_us.shtml ### www.oregon.gov/OSP ###
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