Category Archives: Drug Crimes

This year, Livingston and Washtenaw Narcotics Enforcement Team officers raided Marshall Alternatives, a medical marijuana dispensary near Fowlerville, Michigan. The owners of the dispensary and an employee were charged with delivery of marijuana after selling marijuana to an undercover police officer who had a medical marijuana card with no listed caregiver. The defendants recently waived […]

Last week, we wrote about the Michigan Court of Appeals’ ruling that medical marijuana dispensaries are illegal if they involve the sale of marijuana. This week, the Michigan Court of Appeals issued a ruling that further limits the application of the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act (MMMA). More Conflicts with the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act This newest […]

The Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that the sale of marijuana from medical marijuana dispensaries is illegal in Michigan. In this case, two men own a medical marijuana dispensary in Mount Pleasant, Michigan—Compassionate Apothecary, LLC—where medical marijuana patients can buy marijuana from medical marijuana caregivers that rent lockers there. The dispensary keeps about 20% […]

A squatter is defined as: “a person who settles on land or occupies property without title, right, or payment of rent.” In a case that was recently decided by the Michigan Court of Appeals, a Detroit area man met that definition. He owned a home, but he was thrown out of the home after Hamtramck, […]

8 Defendants Charged with Selling Marijuana to Undercover Police Officers Last August, the Oakland County Narcotics Enforcement Team raided Clinical Relief, a medical marijuana clinic in Ferndale, Michigan. The officers arrested nine people who had ties to the clinic. The 43rd District Judge Joseph Longo recently ruled that there is probable cause that eight of […]

Every drug defense lawyer was happy to hear about the U.S. District Judge who tossed a marijuana case against a couple who was arrested after an officer “smelled” the drug coming from their home. Using the testimony of a smell expert, the defense successfully argued that there was no way Officer Kyle Young could have smelled the drugs.

Howard Township resident Sylvester Vanderbutts was found guilty of marijuana possession last year in a jury trial in the Cass County Circuit Court. Vanderbutts, now 53 years old, is appealing his criminal conviction. The Michigan Attorney General’s Appellate Division handles criminal appeals from felony convictions for Michigan counties with a population of 75,000 or less. […]

Four Michigan residents were arrested after postal workers tipped off police that marijuana was being delivered to a Lansing home through the mail.

Even though Michigan voters legalized medicinal marijuana in 2008, the public and courts still debate of how to apply it.

Police recently arrested a woman at Detroit Metro Airport after Customs agents discovered that she had transported over two pounds of Heroin in her body from Europe to the United States.