ARCATA, Calif. (AP) - A former police officer in Humboldt County is claiming that one of his superiors offered to buy dinner and drinks for members of a unit that investigates marijuana grows if they met a quota for seizing pot plants and money from cultivators.
The Times-Standard of Eureka reported Saturday (https://bit.ly/1bfNeAO) that former Arcata Police Department officer Kevin Stonebarger made the allegation in a sworn declaration for a lawsuit brought by a widow who is suing the city over a 2011 raid at her home.
Stoneberger says a sergeant promised the celebration that year if the department’s Special Services Unit destroyed 10,000 marijuana plants and recovered $150,000 from people found to be growing weed illegally.
A lawyer for the city, Nancy Delaney, denied any wrong-doing by police and accused Stoneberger of lying in the declaration.
The Times-Standard says Stoneberger resigned from the force last year because of a knee injury.
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Information from: Times-Standard, https://www.times-standard.com
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