Medical-marijuana patient, 67, dies days after raid on his home
Sal Agro, a 67-year-old registered medical-marijuana patient, died of a heart attack on 2 September 2010, eight days after Oakland County narcotics officers raided his Lake Orion home and tore out the plants he grew in a basement bedroom. The raid was part of a county-wide sting that arrested 15 people and seized a reported $750,000 in marijuana.
🇺🇸 Lake Orion, Oakland County, Michigan · Michigan, United States
Sal Agro, 67, a retired autoworker and youth sports coach from Lake Orion, died of a heart attack on 2 September 2010, his family said.[1][2]He had undergone hip surgery two days earlier.[1][2]
Eight days before his death, on 25 August, officers of the Oakland County Sheriff’s Narcotics Enforcement Team raided Agro’s home, tore apart beds and clothing looking for marijuana, and tore out and confiscated several marijuana plants he grew in a basement bedroom.[1]Agro said both he and his wife held state-issued medical-marijuana cards, and his sons Nick and Tony ran Clinical Relief, a Ferndale dispensary at 362 Hilton; his son Tony was arrested at the clinic during the raids.[1]
The raid on Agro’s home was part of a county-wide sting targeting what Sheriff Michael Bouchard called abuse of Michigan’s medical-marijuana law, acting on tips about illegal manufacture, possession and sale at Clinical Relief in Ferndale and Everyday Cafe in Waterford, with connected homes including two in Orion Township.[3]Fifteen people were arrested across the locations, and Bouchard said some $750,000 in marijuana was confiscated and put on display at the sheriff’s office alongside guns, hash oil, scales and jars of processed marijuana.[3]
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The opened sources do not say whether the raid contributed to Agro's death; he had hip surgery two days earlier.
No charges against Agro himself were reported in the opened sources, and the outcome of the cases against the fifteen arrested people is not recorded here.
The Oakland Press account was read via a 420 Magazine forum reprint of the original article.
No photograph of the raid or its aftermath with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened sources.
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