Marijuana Arrest Report

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MERIDEN POLICE DEPARTMENT CASE I INCIDENT REPORT

DEPARTMENT OF POLICE SERVICE

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COMPLAINT NO.

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on' 10/13/10 at approximately 1200 hours, Officer Degumbia from the Meriden Police Department was working a private duty assignment with acotnpany' named New England' Pipe Cleaning Company.. This was in the area of Springdale Avenue at the 200 block of the Street. This company was in the sewer system under the street fixing clogs in the main sewer line that services Springdale Avenue. Each residence on Springdale Avenue has its own service drain pipe which leads from the residence to this main larger sewer pipe in the street. That pipe then flushes the waste out through the sewer system. While one of their employees was in the pipe assessing the clogs and the objects within the pipe one of the residences on the street flushed its toilet and a large amount of water came rushing down the Main pipe. The employee identified as

noticed that with

the rushing water came a large amount of plant leaves. He also noticed that these plant leaves appeared to be the leaves from a marijuana plant. He then notified Officer Degumbia and showed this to him. Officer Degumbia confirmed that based on his training and experience, the plant leafs that had just been flushed into the main sewer line appeared to be: marijuana leaves; .Marijuana leaves are easily identified by their pointy jagged leaves which are always in an odd number pattern and symmetrical, with 'one pointy leaf in the center. Marijuana leaves are discarded because they are not the part of the plant which is smoked. While they contain THC (the active drug in marijuana which gives a person the "high") they only contain a small amount and the flower or "bud" of the plant is saved to smoke. Persons who cultivate their own marijuana throw the leaves out after they harvest the plant and only keep the buds, to smoke and sell. Officer Degumbia then contacted me to investigate.

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I then met with Officer Degumbia and observed the scene. It consisted of a man hole opened in the area of Sringdale Avenue and Ames

Avenue. By looking into the manhole, I observed numerous leaves on the bottom which all appeared to be marijuana leaves. I then asked he could retrieve a leafand he did. I then tested a representative sample of the suspected marijuana (Item 1) using a

NARCOPOUCH 908 test kit system. This gave a positive indication for marijuana. I have been trained in the use of this test kit system and have used it numerous times in the past with the results being confirmed by the Sate Tox. Lab.

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