1 October 2008
Don’t SWAT My Scouts!
Posted by admin under: camps .
From Dan at Scoutingnews.org: Unusual Camp Stories: Swat Team Storms By
Scanning the news, I ran across an article about Marijuana Eradication in Arizona. It recapped a couple of the successful raids done by the Gila County Narcotics Task Force, including this one:
One of the most unusual raids occurred in July 2006 when Boy Scouts attending Camp Geronimo north of Payson awoke to see heavily armed SWAT team members parading past their tents.
The officers stormed a marijuana field about one mile northwest of the camp, flushing two growers who attempted to flee on foot.
The pair ran directly into the SWAT team and was arrested without further incident.
That’s a story you can get quite a few cups of coffee out of.
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- Camp Ella Pot Grower is Getting Wasted
- Girl Scout Green Gone Wrong
- Instant? Um, well, No
- Spend Second Cup on Savings Book
One Comment so far...
Walter Underwood Says:
1 October 2008 at 6:10 pm.
Given the choice, I’d rather have SWAT chasing the growers away from my campsite instead of towards it, so I’d say they made the right choice to approach from the Scouts towards the marijuana field.
