Like Something From a Movie: Gunfight at Mena
This article in the morning paper caught my eye with the headline "2 Dead in Gunfight at Marijuana Site." It reads like something out of a movie. Especially out of the ordinary for small town Arkansas - though Mena has had its share of noteriety through its infamous Contra-supplying airport.
Anyway, it seems some guys tried to rob a fairly big time pot grower outside Mena, Ark., and a gunfight erupted. Two of the would-be robbers were killed and another injured. The pot grower was injured, too.
Officers only found out about the gunfight when another would-be robber showed up at a neighbor's house, saying they were out of gas. Apparently this pot operation, with about 500 plants being grow indoors was "as elaborate an indoor growing operation as I've seen," said the sheriff.
The officers found one body in the driveway. The other in the metal building where the pot was being grown. He had fallen through a plateglass window. Both were shot with a 9mm "assault type" weapon, according to the sheriff.
The capper for me was that the pot grower was 40 and, according to the story, his wife, who was taken into custody, was 19. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it is quite the age difference. Especially when you read they have a 7-month old child, who was placed in the custody of the state Department of Health and Human Services.
Two Dead in Gunfight at Marijuana Site [Ark Democrat-Gazette]
Anyway, it seems some guys tried to rob a fairly big time pot grower outside Mena, Ark., and a gunfight erupted. Two of the would-be robbers were killed and another injured. The pot grower was injured, too.
Officers only found out about the gunfight when another would-be robber showed up at a neighbor's house, saying they were out of gas. Apparently this pot operation, with about 500 plants being grow indoors was "as elaborate an indoor growing operation as I've seen," said the sheriff.
The officers found one body in the driveway. The other in the metal building where the pot was being grown. He had fallen through a plateglass window. Both were shot with a 9mm "assault type" weapon, according to the sheriff.
The capper for me was that the pot grower was 40 and, according to the story, his wife, who was taken into custody, was 19. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it is quite the age difference. Especially when you read they have a 7-month old child, who was placed in the custody of the state Department of Health and Human Services.
Two Dead in Gunfight at Marijuana Site [Ark Democrat-Gazette]
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