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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

 

Two grandmothers busted for growing pot

San Bruno senior citizens busted on pot-farming charges

 
Aleen Lam, 72, charged with growing hundreds of marijuana plants in her San Bruno home.

San Mateo County sheriff

Aleen Lam, 72, charged with growing hundreds of marijuana plants in her San Bruno home.

It's pretty common these days for robbers to target homes where marijuana is being grown.

Not so common: When the suspected pot growers are two women past retirement age.

Virginia Pon, 65, charged with growing hundreds of marijuana plants in her San Bruno home.

San Mateo County sheriff

Virginia Pon, 65, charged with growing hundreds of marijuana plants in her San Bruno home.

That was what San Bruno police uncovered Friday, according to San Mateo County prosecutors.

It all began when neighbors heard loud banging coming from the women's home on Valleywood Drive, nestled in between Skyline Boulevard and Interstate 280.

Then they saw two men, later identified as Kitae Chae, 38, and Kenny Kong, 34, breaking down the front door and lingering inside for a few minutes before driving off in a BMW, District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.

The neighbors called police, and officers who stopped the BMW in South San Francisco found the men with $12,000 in cash, marijuana packaging material and seven ecstasy pills, Wagstaffe said.

When they arrived at the Valleywood Drive home, investigators found a substantial pot-growing operation: more than 800 marijuana plants, $3,000 in cash and a bypass through which electricity was being stolen from Pacific Gas and Electric Co., police said.

In short order, officers arrested the occupants -- 72-year-old Aleen Lam and Virginia Chan Pon, 65. It's not Pon's first run-in with the law: She is already facing charges in Yolo County for allegedly passing more than $40,000 in bad checks over a three-day period at Cache Creek Casino.

"I have never seen or heard of women in their 60s and 70s running a grow house," Wagstaffe said. "I certainly hope it is aberrational rather than a trend. I suppose profiteering in illegal enterprises crosses all the generations."

The two women face a variety of drug charges, and Chae and Kong are accused of drug and burglary counts. Lam has not yet entered a plea, while the others have pleaded not guilty. All four are being held at San Mateo County Jail in lieu of $100,000 bail each.

Prosecutors have filed a motion requiring that the two women show a legitimate source for any bail they post.



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/crime/detail?entry_id=88229#ixzz1LOSR7Dvf


Comments:
A "legitimate" source? Meanwhile, who's guarding the Queen's Afghanistan poppy fields?
To be blunt, these two best buds need to hash out a deal with "the man" or zig zag through the legal haze lest their freedom goes up in smoke and they wind up in the joint. It sounds like they could have had a new "hempire" in the pipeline but it is more likely just a pipe dream.
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