FORT PIERCE — Sitting in a living room filled with marijuana smoke, Alfred Foster Welling III had a problem: St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office investigators executing a search warrant at his home.

Welling’s encounter with the law enforcers in the 1900 block of South 34th Street ended Thursday with his arrest on felony charges including cultivation of marijuana, possession of marijuana with intent and possession of more than 20 grams of marijuana, according to recently obtained records.
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PORT ST. LUCIE — A woman got a notice to appear in court after her 8-year-old son found part of her suspected marijuana blunt and her cigarette pack in his backpack and told a bus driver, according to a police report released Monday.

The bus driver on Friday told an officer that the boy indicated he found a pack of Newport cigarettes in his book bag. In the pack, the officer spied an apparent “used marijuana cigarette blunt roach,” the report states. “Blunt” is usually used to describe a cigar or cigarette in which the tobacco is replaced by marijuana. (more…)