Anchorage cops run sting on mj delivery driver

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• Anchorage police arrest marijuana delivery driver in sting operation
  https://www.adn.com/article/20150131/anchorage-police-arrest-marijuana-delivery-driver-sting-operation[URL='https://www.facebook.com/DiscreetDeliveries']
  Devin Kelly
  January 31, 2015
  
  Anchorage police have arrested and charged a delivery driver for a company that said it was openly selling marijuana in anticipation of Alaska’s new legal possession law.
  
  Birchie Walter, 35, who works for the company Discreet Deliveries, was arrested on Wednesday when he delivered marijuana to an undercover police officer, according to police communications director Jennifer Castro. He was charged with a misdemeanor, she said.
  
  The company had been advertising marijuana deliveries to customers in Anchorage and the Mat-Su.
  
  
  
  “Technically we are acting (rogue) … but look forward to being legal soon,” the company’s site said in early January.
  
  This week, the company’s website had a new message: “We are now closed (due) to an Anchorage police sting on one of our drivers.”
  
  The message included an apology to customers and a pledge to "open again soon."
  
  Recreational marijuana use will be legal in Alaska on Feb. 24, the result of November’s ballot initiative. People will be able to possess and transport up to an ounce of marijuana under the language of Ballot Measure 2. But marijuana businesses won’t legally be able to operate until 2016, after regulations governing commercial marijuana operations are in effect and the state has issued licenses.
  
  The owner of the company, Rocky Burns, said in early January he wasn’t worried about the risks of publicizing a marijuana business before selling pot is legal, and said his goal was to get ahead of Outside competition for an Alaska customer base.
  
  Police and the head of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board had said what the company was doing wasn’t legal.
  
  In a statement Saturday, Castro said police are “working to charge those who are violating current state and municipal laws by selling marijuana.”
  
  Court records show that Walter was released on bail Thursday. He is scheduled to make his first court appearance on March 6.
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[BlazinPaperPlanes]

It's these idiot's who have already won and can't play by the rules that screw us all.

 

[Observe & Report]

Good luck getting a retail license now.

 

[GreatwhiteNorth]

I like the comments at the end of the article though.
Public sentiment is definitely on our side even as greedy idiots like this drag us down.

 

[Legal in AK]

Not sure why everyone in AK hates so much trying to say what he was doing is illegal. Marijuana is still illegal federally and the black market isn't going to stop. He supported local growers instead of out of state gangs shipping in packs. Everywhere I look I see people smoking Cali import. Smoking Cali import just supports the gangs and their violence. Right now there are over 1000 delivery services that are illegal in LA yet the cops find better things to do with their time like deal with gang violence. I wish APD would learn something from them

 

[AKrbb907]

Shipping up cali weed DOES NOT help gangs... Just sayin. The gangs don't waste their time w weed

 

[Legal in AK]

Shipping up cali weed DOES NOT help gangs... Just sayin. The gangs don't waste their time w weed

Seriously? Do you actually believe that?
http://www.adn.com/article/20150127/anchorage-police-double-homicide-may-be-connected-other-crimes
"Police believe the shooting “possibly stemmed from some other violent crimes that had taken place prior,” she said, and may have been gang- or drug-related. "

Gangs don't touch marijuana?
http://www.adn.com/article/20150129/spike-violent-crime-be-met-police-shakedowns

"Mew said all of the homicides and all but one of the assault cases involved marijuana and other drugs. Those other drugs run the gamut, he said -- cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin."

Not to mention before the end of prohibition it was estimated that 50% of the Mexican Cartel income came from the cannabis trade.

Do you have any sources to prove gangs do not "waste their time w weed"?

 

[GreatwhiteNorth]

I was talking to a friend yesterday whom delivers for UPS about the legalization & he tells me "I've got 3 red packages today alone that I know are drugs just by where & to whom they're going". A notorious trailer park that probably has as much crime as the rest of the town combined.
He just delivers though, a hunch apparently isn't enough to trigger the system, but if it's leaking or reeking he gets no choice.

 

[FrozenChozen]

a hunch apparently isn't enough to trigger the system, but if it's leaking or reeking he gets no choice.

A close friend of mine sorts mail in the airport post office, he says that they don't have the man power to check packages that closely.... He used that EXACT same term, If its leaking or reeking I have no choice....

 

[AKrbb907]

Seriously? Do you actually believe that?
http://www.adn.com/article/20150127/anchorage-police-double-homicide-may-be-connected-other-crimes
"Police believe the shooting “possibly stemmed from some other violent crimes that had taken place prior,” she said, and may have been gang- or drug-related. "

Gangs don't touch marijuana?
http://www.adn.com/article/20150129/spike-violent-crime-be-met-police-shakedowns

"Mew said all of the homicides and all but one of the assault cases involved marijuana and other drugs. Those other drugs run the gamut, he said -- cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin."

Not to mention before the end of prohibition it was estimated that 50% of the Mexican Cartel income came from the cannabis trade.

Do you have any sources to prove gangs do not "waste their time w weed"?

Besides the numerous people I know in gangs... No one I can bring to your attention.

So the weed you grow you sell to gang members?

 

[Legal in AK]

I have enough common sense to know not to associate myself with individuals in gangs.

 

[akgrown]

all he had to do was wait a little longer and he would still be in business. i knew it was gonna get shot down as soon as he advertised in in a news article

 

[Legal in AK]

all he had to do was wait a little longer and he would still be in business. i knew it was gonna get shot down as soon as he advertised in in a news article

I dont think waiting til the 24th would have helped him. Alaska legistlators seem determined to undermine the voters

 

[Skylor]

I have enough common sense to know not to associate myself with individuals in gangs.

U might be surprise whom the police view as gang members

 

[Skylor]

I dont think waiting til the 24th would have helped him. Alaska legistlators seem determined to undermine the voters

Yeah well, U guys voted them into office, ha ha.

We got the same shit down here in Michigan, us voters approved MM by a wide amount, 62% in 2008 yet the state leaders don't like it but they can't totally close it down, in fact things aren't too bad in a few areas in the state.

As time moves on, U guys will become legal, they can drag their feet for only so long