It’s one of those quintessential urban living experiences – you’re walking around town, come face-to-face with a building or business that’s shambling to ruin, and something about the location you can’t put specific words around throws a flag in your head: shady shit is going down within.
That was the case with Akron’s Emerson Grinding on Kelly Avenue, an industry stretch near the Akron Fulton airport. Machine shop on the front. But inside? A large-scale pot growing operation.
The eponymous Emerson clan were the ones behind the grow, and according to the Beacon Journal, it was a family business. After Akron police raided the location and three residences last week, 69-year-old Edward Emerson and his two sons, 28-year-old Edward John and 25-year-old Robert, we taken into custody.
Police reportedly found 200 marijuana plants at the shop. 14 guns and around $25,000 was also taken.
We’re sure there were a lot of “grinding” and “pot” jokes we could have made on that one, but hey, it’s early, we’re still drinking our morning coffee.
This article appears in Jun 20-26, 2012.
Ouch…They’re gonna get smacked hard…
Peter Lewis with Progressive is by far the largest donor of funds for the legalization of pot. I’m not sure who I would rather buy pot from: An Akron hillbilly or a Mexican Drug cartel…Decisions, decisions. If it were legalized they may both go under and we may even produce some tax revenues and some good and legal jobs. Gambling is OK. Booze is OK. Pills are OK. Cigs are OK. But pot is bad.
14 guns. 3 men. 200 pot plants. The math doesn’t add up. There’s something fishy about this pot-growing operation, and it’s bigger than anything you could imagine.
Family bonding experience #57: Do jail time together
hope the little one takes it in the butt
No jail time for these guys? Not one single day in the slammer? How is this possible? Thats the system for you I suppose. You get alittle fish but they give bigger fish up so you give them a slap on the wrist! BAHAAHAHAHAHA!!