Alleged Accomplice In Hobe Sound Pot-growing Operation Pleads Not Guilty

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FORT PIERCE – A Stuart man authorities say was an accomplice in the Hobe Sound marijuana-growing operation allegedly run by Kobie Gary pleaded not guilty Friday to a trio of federal drug charges already filed against Gary and two co-defendants.

Federal prosecutors in court said they added two more drug charges against David Jeffrey Grant, 26, who on Monday was arrested on a charge of conspiracy to manufacture and distribute at least 100 marijuana plants.

Other charges include the manufacture and possession with intent to distribute more than 100 marijuana plants, and conspiracy to maintain a place for growing marijuana.

The offenses stem from a criminal investigation that ended with Gary's Oct. 27 arrest near a Mulberry Drive home in Hobe Sound where authorities seized 213 pot plants and related equipment. Grant's fingerprints were lifted from two light tubes that were part of an elaborate lighting system seized after Gary's arrest.

Co-defendants include Scott Gibson of Stuart and Hobe Sound resident Stephen Shepherd, who has already pleaded guilty in the case. Each face up to 40 years behind bars if convicted.



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[Warbux]

Why not just execute em? It seem's we're no better than China, Or Malaysia.

 

[Siscokid]

Man, I am truly disgusted by our laws and govern. for selling out to the filthy hogs that push money into there rotted mouths. PIGS is what they are, take a person away from there fam. and turn them into criminals of the worst kind when they are put behind bars.

What good has that done to our society? They grew or allegedly grew weed, was it for a funding for terrorists or for gangs? Do you think that the punishment fits the crime?

They may be guilty of generating money for the economy. They put money into the system and they don't make very much. I have yet to hear on the news of a real drug bust.

When are the goons going to leave us to do what we want to our-selfs! They have the balls to push wars on us in lands far away for the sake of peace but the wars that are being fought here on our home land are not for peace but to destroy!

My prayers go out to those and there fam. tonight that have to spend time away from there loved ones.