Community | February 12, 2010 | 30 comments

Pot returned — all 4 pounds of it

source: http://www.triplicate.com/20100210108170/News/Local-News/Pot-returned-all-4-pounds-of-it

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Daniel Sosa didn’t know what to expect when he flew into Crescent City on Friday to pick up 4 pounds of marijuana.

Sosa had a 2 p.m. appointment with the Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office to get back marijuana that was confiscated in February 2009 during a routine traffic stop.

His appointment, and the subsequent handoff, was a first for both Sosa and the Sheriff’s Office.

“This is the first time we’ve released that quantity of marijuana,” said sheriff’s Commander Tim Athey. “It’s not something we like to do.”

According to Sosa, who operates two medical marijuana dispensaries in Las Angeles, it took a call from his lawyer to the Sheriff’s Office before the marijuana was released.

“I went into the office and tried the phone but got voice-mail,” Sosa said. “My lawyer said that I had a 2 p.m. appointment, it only took an extra 15 minutes or so before the evidence officer came out.”

Sosa said that the evidence officer, Deputy John Olson, directed him to wait in his car down the block from the Sheriff’s Office.

“It seemed weird,” Sosa said. “I was worried that they were going to arrest me again.”

As Sosa waited across the street from the Sheriff’s Office parking lot, Olson wheeled out a shopping cart with a cardboard box containing the 4 pounds of pot.

“It was surreal,” Sosa said. “There we are on the street, and we are going over an evidence sheet and pulling out bags of medicine. I mean we were just on the street.”

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