Father and son arrested after grow house found on Nettles Island
September 17th, 2009 by Jason SchultzNETTLES ISLAND — Agriculture is often a family business passed down from father to son. But the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office says one father and son team’s four-year farming operation has landed them in jail.
Michael O’Leary, 48, and Travis O’Leary, 27, were arrested this morning on charges of cultivating and trafficking in marijuana. According to a St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office report deputies searched their home on Nettles Boulevard in Nettles Island, a gated community on Hutchinson Island, finding an attic grow room containing 62 marijuana plants.
Michael O’Leary told deputies that he has been growing marijuana for about four years, according to the report. Both father and son were booked into the St. Lucie County Jail.
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September 17th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
i live in colorado, along with 12 other states, that would be legal. i am currently growing 800 plants, totally legal, i sell to my 2000 patients, the state makes $90 per patient per year, that is $200k a year that i am contributing to the states coffers, do you really want to pay to lock up people growing a weed, i dont,
i am sure the sheriff will tell you a different story over bourbon
September 18th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Legalize it already!
October 27th, 2009 at 9:26 am
Michael O’Leary is back home in Nettles Island, why?!
Thanks for an update on the situation.