Home crash kills 1, reveals pot farm
Life’s never easy for an ex-con that has a gun, a back-bedroom marijuana farm and a neighbor with a jammed accelerator.
It's never a good day when firemen visit your home. (from Chicago Sun-Times)
Consider the story of Thomas Micucci, 27, from the outskirts of Chicago, who was at home enjoying playing video games with his roommate when a woman trying to back her car down the driveway across the street brought his world, and walls, crashing down.
The roommate, 28-year-old Zachary Isenberg, died when the 1995 Mercury Marquis driven by Patricia Dolton ran him over in his living room, according to an article on WGNtv.com.
Micucci was hospitalized, and police searching the home for more victims found a locked room containing 13 marijuana plants.
In Isenberg’s room, police found half an ounce of cocaine and about $2,000 in cash.
They also found a gun in Micucci’s bedroom, something convicted felons aren’t supposed to have. He faces felony charges for marijuana production and illegal possession of a firearm by a felon.
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james reed
September 12th, 2011
2:31 pm
Wow , ruserious seems to be the real deal. Sorry you grew up in bad neighborhood, I grew up with average white people who hunted and had lot’s of guns and many of them smoked weed.
Sorry for your crappy life , hope it gets better and you meet some average people instead of crack heads and gangsters, pimps and Ho’s.
I have known lots of people who used marijuana and only a few of them ever went on to try cocaine or harder drugs, none are in jail or pimping their bodies on the streets. Most quit without spending any time in jail, going to rehab or having a TV style intervention.
I know a good many who have died from drinking and driving and cirhosis of the liver and bar fights and the like from good old alcohol abuse. How do you feel about making it illegal? I’m sure it caused more problems than marijuana in your neighborhood.
duh
September 12th, 2011
2:55 pm
Well if the guy was on parole or probation they would not need a warrant anyway. However with the emergency response the entire house was viable because of structural integrity, natural gas, etc… It doesn’t matter the crime, a crime is a crime lock one up and burry the other saved some tax payer money anyway.
american pie
September 12th, 2011
4:48 pm
I think the women should be charged with involintary manslaughter and put in jail for 10 years. As for the guy who died, its a terrible tragedy. As for the living victim, I dont condone the drug dealing, or possession of a firearm, but to enter a locked door even in that situation should constitute an illegal search.
JeffyW
September 12th, 2011
7:25 pm
Dude was just tryin to work his “green job” when this ho on the police payroll blows the whole operation. You know the gun was a cop drop. Nice plan there sarge, you just killed a guy.
mark
September 12th, 2011
7:41 pm
ruserious
There is no “gateway” drug. That theory has been dismantled. Go back to DARE Class, oh ya, that has been founded, by science to be a waste of money. Another waste of your tax dollars. This guys trial, jail time and all the money the cops will blow, putting this menace away.
What a joke. this tea baggin town wants to eliminate public education, but wants the war on drugs to continue. That war has killed 1000’s in mexico, but the people of Georgia wonder why people cross the desert to come to america. ignorance is bliss!!
scallywag
September 12th, 2011
8:28 pm
I tell ya: one minute your playing Xbox with your roommate, getting high on a lazy Saturday, the next some crazy woman drives through your house, kills your friend, and opens that can of worms in your closet. What are we supposed to do with that, caulk it up to happenstance? I hope for Micucci’s sake, he got to see this Patricia Dolton one more time to personally thank her for wrecking his life. If it wasn’t for her meddling car, he would have been slumped on the couch still, wondering how to be a more productive member of society, then forgetting all about it. In Micucci’s case, things have a way of happening to him, it seems, without him even making the slightest effort.
http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2011/09/woman-crashes-car-through-home-kills-resident-leads-police-to-marijuana-cocaine-bust/
Billy Bob
September 12th, 2011
10:26 pm
If the room was locked, exactly how would a victim get in there? Did the police think the car threw them so hard they went through the wall without damaging it? Even criminals have rights people, that is kind of what America was founded on…..
Billy Bob
September 12th, 2011
10:28 pm
Ummm Mark, did you notice this was in Chicago?? That’s where Obama came from brilliance, tea baggin??
oreary?
September 13th, 2011
8:39 am
Billy Bob: “If the room was locked, exactly how would a victim get in there? Did the police think the car threw them so hard they went through the wall without damaging it? Even criminals have rights people, that is kind of what America was founded on…”
Ummm perhaps the potential victim was in the room before the accident? For all the police knew, a room was locked in a severely damaged house, and the two room mates kept a child slave locked in there. And that’s why all rooms are searched in situations like this. Better to find out then than to get sued later when somone dies because the responders assume no one else was in the house.
tiredofyourlies
September 13th, 2011
10:31 am
Stereotypes and lies are all the opposition has to work with.
Considering our last 2 presidents and our current president (as well as many other former presidents) have admitted to marijuana use of some kind in their past I could theorize that marijuana is a gateway drug to the presidency. Michael Phelps, currently holding the record for having won the most Olympic gold-medals in history, had a very public controversy regarding photos of his consumption of marijuana. Recreational cannabis use didn’t seem to stop him from outperforming the competition. Next up on the list of those who have partaken of the demon weed and excelled in life … we have former vice president Al Gore, Billionaire George Soros, famed astrophysicist Carl Sagan, Conan O’Brian, John F Kennedy, Billionaire Businessman Richard Branson, Nobel Prize Laureate physicist Richard Feynman, best selling author Stephen King, the list can go on and on. Listen to any 70’s rock? 80’s rock? 90’s rock? Jazz? Hip Hop? Burn all the albums you’ve got, because the vast majority of those artists were on drugs.
“It’s illegal.” That’s all some of you have to say on the topic?
Perhaps you forget that we in America are the product of lawbreakers. The founders openly defied the laws of England to establish this nation in their attempt to create a free society. It was illegal for a woman to vote in our nation’s not so distant past. Jim crow laws (only repealed in the 60’s) made it illegal for blacks to drink from ‘whites only’ fountains or to sit in the front of public buses. The list of horrendous laws in our history can go on and on. Dismissing the ongoing persecution of pot smokers/growers/dealers solely on the ground that “it’s illegal” is just lazy. The least one could do is get informed on the standard prohibitionist talking points and parrot the party line. If the federal government made practicing Christianity/Judaism illegal overnight, I doubt those same people would be happy to hear their grievances dismissed by the general populace with a simple “it’s illegal”. Marijuana is a religious sacrament to Rastafarians but I don’t see many Americans standing up for the Rasta’s right to practice their religion freely.
The fact is, many of those who support the ‘war’ on cannabis users believe that God says marijuana is evil. Therefore, in their minds, since god say’s it’s wrong (or so his most vocal earthly representatives have told them) they must impose “god’s will” upon everyone else in this nation by any means necessary. That includes law, lies and sabotage. They have no respect for the concept of the Republic, the constitution, atheists, agnostics, rastafarians or anyone else who doesn’t follow the lifestyle of their chosen god / religion. They don’t respect a free society. They’re quite frankly very unAmerican.
I’m philosophically opposed to violence and will never stoop to the level of my opposition. At times I wish I wasn’t so peaceful and civilized, so I could return the favor to those who have used violence against me in the ‘war on drugs’. Perhaps burst into their homes in the wee hours of the morning, hold them at gunpoint, lock them in a cage with violent criminals for a few years and ‘reeducate’ them. Like most cannabis users I expect we will win our freedom by peacefully living our lives, leading by example, and dispelling myths / stereotypes about the men & women behind the smoke. For now, I will simply have to exercise my patience.