For further information please contact: Sergeant Scott E. Meyer
816-622-0800
A100703
October 17, 2007

EMPHASIS: Drug Arrest In Jackson County


On October 16, 2007, at approximately 3 p.m., members of the Division of Drug and Crime Control for the Missouri State Highway Patrol and officers from the Independence Police Department conducted a consent search of a residence on East 39th Street in Independence. Inside the residence an indoor marijuana growing operation and approximately 126 marijuana plants were seized. Arrested at the residence in Independence was Tam B. Tran, 44, of Independence, Missouri.
Further investigation led the officers to a residence on Southwest Moore Street in Blue Springs. A search warrant was obtained for the residence. Members of the Division of Drug and Crime Control and officers from the Blue Springs Police Department conducted a search of the residence. Inside the residence an indoor marijuana growing operation and approximately 420 marijuana plants were seized.
On October 17, 2007, Tam B. Tran, was charged in the Federal Court of the Western District for the state of Missouri with manufacturing/cultivating marijuana over 100 plants.
The charge for which Tran has been arrested is mere accusation and is not evidence of guilt. Evidence in support of the charge must be presented before a court of competent jurisdiction whose duty is to determine guilt or innocence.


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