Police get tips from people who think they have seen something suspicious going on. Then the police try to find out if there really is something illegal happening there. It is not all that easy to get a search warrant--you need lots more than suspicion. And absent exigent circumstances, the police better have the proper paperwork before they kick in any doors.
Years ago, our local drug squad lieutenant contacted me at my home. He asked me what I knew about a pole barn about half a mile down the road from my house. He said they had a report that the barn was being used to grow marijuana, and that they used quite a bit of electricity there, and that there were no windows. He thought there was probably enough information to get a search warrant for the property.
I told the lieutenant that I did know what the barn was used for: it was a factory that processed allergens to produce materials for allergy shots. I gave him the name of the owner (my parents had sold him the property about 20 years earlier), and suggested that he just drive down there, knock on the door and ask to be shown the operation.
The lieutenant came back about an hour later and told me that he had been welcomed, shown the operation, and that there did not appear to be anything illegal going on there. He thought the operation was quite interesting and thanked me for saving him and his unit a bunch of time and maybe some bad public relations.
But sometimes the tips lead to serious drug busts. Another of my neighbors WAS growing marijuana, apparently for years and in large quantities. I do not know the circumstances of how his operation was discovered, but I do know that he served a couple of years in prison and his farm was CONFISCATED as proceeds of drug profits.
I hope the officers handled the contact with the maple syrup producers with some tact. And I hope they did not actually kick in the door. Of course, I do not know just what information they had before they went there. They might have believed that the situation was a whole lot more dangerous than it turned out to be.
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