Man Busted for Growing Pot in Rock Creek Park

It's marijuana Thursday! The AP via WaPo reports that a 19-year-old Chevy Chase man has been arrested for growing approximately 10 marijuana plants in Rock Creek Park. Isiah Johnson was caught tending the plants after the National Park Service discovered them in what's being described as a "remote" part of the park, and set up surveillance. Not remote enough, apparently.

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"marijuana Thursday!"

How bout the Potpocalypse.

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I love Marijuana Thursdays, but Vicodin Mondays and Ecstacy Fridays are where its at.

Anyone see the link between big pot busts yesterday and $1.50 cheesecake slices? 32 lbs of dope would suuuure create one hell of a case of the munchies.

remote! it's the box turtle that was the remote! They had that little bugger equiped with a GPS. Whatcha out for Turtles, Potheads, they're coming for you... very.... slowly... but you many just been too stoned to get away... ahhhh!

smart, though, using the park, can't seize his parent's house at least.

Wow. Some people have a true gift for stupidity.

I love the fact that it was discovered by a turtle with a GPS system attached to him. I know I have to keep an eye on my turtle because he moves so darn fast. The Slowskis are just not reality based.

hey those suckers can haul ass in water

lol. I can't believe a turtle caught this. That is awesome.

I wonder if it was a turtle named "Mother" that lived in a box Uncle Oscar left behind.

Unless I'm missing something, the turtle didn't "catch" anything. The researcher tracking the turtle just happened to notice the plants and tipped off the police.

Damn those Comcast turtles!

wow, that researcher is a real jerk. He stumbles upon 12 plants and calls the police? It's not like there were fields of plants with dangerous boobie traps and armed guards. And now the whole judicial process will get underway for something that's barely a crime. 12 plants will get this kid something like 90 days of community service. How much will all of this cost in the end?

It's just funnier to think that the turtle caught the kid. Those meddling turtles. Oh, and was the researcher a jerk??! Really, cuz from here I can't tell if it was 10 plants or 12. Sounds like somebody's got a home "safety stash"

Oh, and above, I meant "may" not "many". I'm a tool who's fingers get typing ahead of my brains and my eyes... eeeew.

First its the spy squirrles around the White House, now it is turtles with GPS. Next it will be rats and pigeons. I do believe the birds around here like to bomb people. I have been hit twice since living here.

I keep telling people that Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole was a DOCUMENTARY. Nobody listens.

You call it growing pot in a public park. I call it community gardening.

I love Marijuana Thursdays, but Vicodin Mondays and Ecstacy Fridays are where its at.

Cocaine Saturday is pretty cool too, but my all time favorite is Heroin Sunday.

So, apparently the Bush administration has not only had its fingers in ideology-based Justice Department hirings, but Park Service research hires as well.

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Technically, didn't this all happen on Weed Wednesday?

You should have waited until 4:20 to publish these weed stories.

It was...12 plants.

No, let's just say "approximately 10"

Ahhhh, much better. :D

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