An illegal marijuana operation was discovered a stone’s throw from the vice president’s residence in Washington, D.C., police said Tuesday.
The Metropolitan Police Department said its officers made the discovery shortly after 3:30 p.m. Tuesday while executing a search warrant on the 2300 block of Wisconsin Ave. NW, a predominately commercial area north of Georgetown neighbored immediately on the east by the U.S. Navy Observatory, the official residence of every vice president since 1974.
The MPD said its Narcotics and Special Investigation Division Major Case Unit arrested four individuals inside and seized 3.25 pounds of weed worth an estimated street value of $58,880.
Three of the individuals — 24-year-old Conner MacLeod Donahue of Woodbridge, 42-year-old Marvin Alphonzo Harvison of D.C. and 29-year-old Sidi Mohamed Chendid of Alexandria — were arrested pursuant to warrants that had been issued by a D.C. Superior Court judge for distribution of marijuana, the MPD said in a statement. A fourth person, 29-year-old Gary Little of D.C., was arrested at the scene and charged with distribution of marijuana.
All four appeared Wednesday in D.C. Superior Court and were released on their own recognizance, according to online court records. They’re slated to appear next before Judge Sherry Tafford on Dec. 14.
Washington, D.C., has one of the most relaxed marijuana laws in the nation following passage of a recreational weed bill in 2014, but prohibits adults from possessing over two ounces of cannabis and growing more than a few plants at once, as well as buying or selling weed.
A police affidavit seen by The Washington Post on Wednesday connected a second-floor storefront on the 2300 block of Wisconsin Ave. N.W. with a marijuana networking website, LeafedIn, allegedly used by law enforcement in October to negotiate buying $710 worth of pot, the newspaper reported.
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