Capitol Hemp Store Raid: Adam Eidinger Turning Himself In To Police

WASHINGTON -- Adam Eidinger, co-owner of the hemp stores raided by the Metropolitan Police Department in late October, announced this morning on Twitter that there is a warrant out for his arrest, and he is turning himself in to the police.

Eidinger told The Huffington Post that the warrant relates to the seizure of some $300,000 worth of merchandise and other store property taken by police during the October raids. The merchandise includes water pipes, cash registers and vaporizers.

Read the application filed by the Metropolitan Police Department in support of their warrant to search Capitol Hemp here.

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Comments

[Josh A Davis]

11:56 AM on 12/03/2011

Officer Cuevas consistently refers to seeing fields of marijuana plants when in reality he is looking at non-drug industrial hemp plants. When law enforcement end their ignorance?!

This is why Industrial Hemp is still illegal in the US. while 30 other industrialized countries are benefiting from it being legal.

Personally, I think that law enforcement could spend more time dealing with non-consensual crimes (shootings, rapes, robberies, extortion) than waste the time of what appears to be a well trained officer, in Brett Cuevas's case. I would prefer that Officer Cuevas was protecting our streets from people armed with guns rather than people armed with water pipes...

[DougDeWitt]

02:53 AM on 12/03/2011

Uh, last I checked the District of Columbia passed Amendment Act B18-622 by a landslide 13-0 vote, legalizing medical marijuana. Sale of "whatever" to registered patients cannot be unlawful, regardless of Officer Brett Cueva's extensive legal training.

You're a cop, Brett... not an attorney. The guy should be aggressively prosecuted for practicing the law without a license to do so. You need warrants, go to your District Attorney's office and procure them!

[Nicon]

08:22 PM on 12/02/2011

If you read the little section of the warrant that the super smart police tried to scan you can see that many many police hours were used to justify this costly pointless raid.

How long will we continue to let the police waste time effort and money arresting people for selling pipes and bongs?

Did all the Rapists, murders, thieves, Pimps, move outa DC?
No?
Then get the FU** Back to work

[Hugh Briggs]

04:20 PM on 12/02/2011

Wow -

http://images.peekyou.com/3566/8921/brett_cuevas_356689215.jpg

[Petunia Fields]

04:03 PM on 12/02/2011

pssst! theres people shipping thousands of guns to the terrorist cartels! Maybe you should get them first.