To host a special event at which you intend to allow consumption of marijuana products, the Michigan Marijuana Regulatory Agency requires that you obtain a temporary marijuana event license. Even if you already hold a marijuana event organizer license, the state...
Kalamazoo drug raid yields cocaine, firearms, paraphernalia
The Kalamazoo Metro SWAT Team, along with local police, raided a Kalamazoo home on Feb. 21 and found drugs and firearms, among other items. In executing a search warrant, authorities found drugs, including 14 baggies of crack cocaine and 27 baggies of marijuana, all...
Police seize marijuana, vehicle and cash in drug raid
A tip led police to investigate a barn for possible marijuana cultivation in Covert Township, less than an hour outside Kalamazoo. The tip proved correct, as the Feb. 13 drug raid resulted in 27 marijuana plants seized. Narcotics detectives from the Van Buren County...
FBI agent raids home, finds marijuana cultivation operation
Investigators in Van Buren County, Michigan, recently busted an indoor marijuana growing cultivation in the area and had reason to believe that some of the suspects would be found in Bangor, about 40 minutes outside Kalamazoo. An FBI agent and narcotics detectives...
Marijuana, mushrooms seized in morning-time Michigan traffic stop
Kalamazoo residents and readers of this blog are well aware of police efforts to crack down on controlled substances. Often, police will use a traffic stop as an excuse to search a vehicle, as we discussed in a post last month. More recently, a traffic stop in Burr...
Police find marijuana, firearms and cash in drug raid
Acting on a tip, officers from the Van Buren County Sheriff's Office Narcotics Unit obtained a search warrant and raided a home. The raid took place in Gobles on Dec. 18. It resulted in the seizure of a pound of marijuana. Besides the marijuana, the officers found...
Traffic stop leads to marijuana bust, possession charge
In western Michigan, just over an hour from Kalamazoo, a man was pulled over by police for driving with no working taillights. After stopping the man, authorities found more than one gram of marijuana and 21 pills inside the vehicle. Police also found a scale, which...
Marijuana charges pending in Michigan investigation
Michigan police have finished a three-week investigation of a drug trafficking operation, which apparently operated about 50 miles from Kalamazoo. The investigation began after officers were called to a residence regarding a complaint of people smoking marijuana. The...
Charges pending after major Michigan marijuana grow house raid
Although no charges have been brought yet, police are investigating a 30-year-old man and 25-year-old woman from Paw Paw, Michigan. According to police, they searched the couple's residence when they were not home, finding marijuana plants growing inside. It is...
2 suspected of trafficking marijuana arrested in Michigan home
A 32-year-old man was arrested in his home for possession of marijuana with intent to deliver after a drug bust in Berrien County, Michigan. A 22-year-old woman also inside the home was arrested on a warrant for drug possession. The man is currently in jail awaiting...