University Daily Kansan, August 26, 1983
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Shortage of agents affects pot search in Kansas
By MICHAEL PAUL Staff Reporter
A shortage of manpower, one of the reasons offered by the Kansas attorney general's office for not using surveillance in its marijuana-destroying program, has not prevented Missouri from using surveillance in its program.
Jim Flory, Kansas deputy attorney general and chief of the criminal division, said this week that one reason the state was not conducting surveillance was that there were not enough full-time agents. The state has 14 full-time agents assigned to narcotics investigation.
Capt. C.C. Maddox, director of the criminal law enforcement bureau of the Missouri Highway Patrol, said that
Missouri had 18 full-time investigators. But that had not deterred the highway patrol from conducting surveillance.
"We're limited in manpower," Maddox said. "We look at each patch on its merit. If it looks as if it's been treated visited, we'll try to do surveillance."
In Missouri, four raids have been staged in four counties since Sunday. The raids led to 13 arrests.
Most of the raids occurred after surveillance of the fields, said Sgt. Carroll Plunket, chief of patrols and patricotics.
Douglas County District Attorney Jerry Harper has suggested that the state stake out fields before raiding them, as is being done in Missouri. He has criticized the state's mariana-destroying program, saying it has not
Since Aug. 10, Kansas law enforcement officials have conducted seven raids in four counties. The raids yielded 85,000 plants, worth an estimated $8.5 million, which were destroyed
led to many arrests.
Thomas Kelly, director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, was unavailable for comment on how many arrests had been made, but in which 20,000 cultivated plants were destroyed, no one was arrested.
Harper said this week that the marijuana-destroying program in Kansas should be modeled after Missouri's program.
Missouri's plant,
"They staked out irrigated fields."
Harper said. "That's how you catch marijuana growers."
Maddox said that the investigators were troopers whose duty for part of the year was to identify marijuana fields.
Flory shid that surveillance was impractical, because some patches were in areas that would be difficult for the survey to survey without being detected.
Maddox agreed that surveillance could not be done on every field.
"It if the patch is not in a good place, if it's inaccessible, there's no point in doing surveillance," he said.
But Plunkett said that those in charge had not deter Missouri in its surveillance.
As of Aug. 21, Maddox said, Missouri officials had made 78 arrests; 15 arrests are pending as a result of the state's program.
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