{"version":1,"id":"us/pa","name":"Pennsylvania, United States","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/country/us/pa/","count":2,"totals":{"reports":2,"arrested":2,"plants_destroyed":455,"hectares":0,"kg_seized":40.5,"deaths":0},"by_type":{"eradication":0,"seizure":0,"raid":1,"arrest":1,"prosecution":0,"sentence":0,"execution":0,"death":0},"latest":"2026-10-26","reports":[{"id":"taylor-pa-2-grams-marijuana-charge","code":"CET-FCQQZE","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/taylor-pa-2-grams-marijuana-charge/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/FCQQZE/","date":"2026-10-26","country":"us/pa","country_name":"Pennsylvania, United States","place":"Taylor, Pennsylvania","coordinates":[41.3914,-75.7153],"precision":"locality","type":"arrest","also":["prosecution"],"title":"Taylor police charge man, 29, over 2 grams of marijuana found in backpack","summary":"Taylor police arrested Joseph Austin, 29, at a Keyser Avenue residence on 26 October 2026 on an active felony warrant. A search of his backpack at the station found about 2 grams of marijuana, and he was charged with possession and held for out-of-state extradition.","status":"reported","figures":{"arrested":1,"charged":1,"kg_seized":0.002},"tags":["pennsylvania","taylor","possession","warrant","small-amount"],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"opencode-go/deepseek-v4.1-flash#max","open_questions":["The article dates the arrest only to “Monday”; 26 October 2026 is calculated from its 29 October 2026 publication date.","Only one source, a local newspaper report citing a complaint, could be found and opened; no police statement or court record was available.","The article does not say what the out-of-state felony warrant alleged or where it was issued.","The weight is given only as “about 2 grams”, and no value for the marijuana was published.","No photograph or video of the arrest was published; the image accompanying the story is a stock police-lights photo from January 2025."],"sources":[{"title":"Taylor police arrest man on felony warrant, possession charge","url":"https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/2026/10/29/taylor-police-arrest-man-on-felony-warrant-possession-charge/","publisher":"The Times-Tribune","date":"2026-10-29","archived":null}]},{"id":"horsch-chalfont-455-plants","code":"CET-7YKRJ8","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/horsch-chalfont-455-plants/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/7YKRJ8/","date":"2009-07-22","country":"us/pa","country_name":"Pennsylvania, United States","place":"Chalfont, Bucks County, Pennsylvania","coordinates":[40.2897,-75.2103],"precision":"locality","type":"raid","also":["seizure","arrest","prosecution","sentence"],"title":"455 cannabis plants found in Chalfont basement; Horsch gets 54 months","summary":"New Britain Township police found 455 marijuana plants and two sawed-off shotguns in Raymond “R.C.” Horsch’s Chalfont basement on 22 July 2009. A federal judge sentenced him to 54 months in prison in 2012 after prosecutors asked for a 20-year mandatory minimum to be waived for his cooperation.","status":"reported","figures":{"arrested":1,"charged":1,"kg_seized":40.5,"plants_destroyed":455,"prison":"54 months"},"tags":["pennsylvania","chalfont","grow-house","federal-sentence","cooperation"],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"opencode-go/deepseek-v4.1-flash#max","open_questions":["The sources give only 2012 for the sentencing; the exact date of the sentencing hearing is not stated.","One Inquirer account said Horsch faced a 15-year minimum, while other reports cite a 20-year mandatory minimum; the report uses 20 years.","The sources do not say what happened to the Bucks County charges after the case was referred for federal prosecution.","The same coverage reports a separate missing-women investigation centered on Horsch’s former Olney home; it is a different matter and is not part of this report.","No photo or video of the 2009 Chalfont grow was available on the opened pages; the published images show Horsch or the later Olney search.","Left out, as its quotation was not found in The Philadelphia Inquirer: On 22 July 2009, a woman in Raymond “R.C.” Horsch’s Chalfont, Pennsylvania, home called 911 to report an intruder.","Left out, as its quotation was not found in The Philadelphia Inquirer: They found 455 marijuana plants and two sawed-off shotguns.","Left out, as its quotation was not found in The Philadelphia Inquirer: The case was referred for federal prosecution, and he was charged in December 2009 with possession with intent to distribute and firearms offenses."],"sources":[{"title":"R.C. Horsch gave feds information on ‘child prostitution,’ drug trafficking","url":"https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/r-c-horsch-philadelphia-feds-information/4487833/","publisher":"NBC10 Philadelphia","date":"2026-10-29","archived":null},{"title":"Horsch gave feds information on child prostitution ring, drugs, and fraud in exchange for greatly reduced sentence","url":"https://www.inquirer.com/crime/raymond-horsch-federal-informant-child-prostitution-20261029.html","publisher":"The Philadelphia Inquirer","date":"2026-10-29","archived":null},{"title":"Olney 'House of Horrors': Newly unsealed documents detail Raymond Horsch plea deal","url":"https://www.fox29.com/news/olney-house-horrors-newly-unsealed-documents-detail-raymond-horsch-plea-deal","publisher":"FOX 29 Philadelphia","date":"2026-10-29","archived":null},{"title":"Major drug bust in Chalfont","url":"https://6abc.com/archive/6930702/","publisher":"6abc Philadelphia","date":"2009-07-23","archived":null},{"title":"Feds cut Raymond Horsch a deal in exchange for information in 2009 drug case, but details remain sealed","url":"https://www.inquirer.com/news/raymond-rc-horsch-federal-investigation-plea-deal-2009-20261028.html","publisher":"The Philadelphia Inquirer","date":"2026-10-28","archived":null}]}]}