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oricK jorm!) aiong luitn someprocessing ■' tools ondmachinery... $200,000 toorth of pot?So they say. Separate the fact from the fiction, which may be impossible, and you’ve still got a night to remember.But then it went to court, where one attorney kept referring to another as a body orifice during in-chambers arguments; where one attorney asked another if he’d ever committed sodomy and got an affirmative; where, when they got down to the actual case, it laid a big egg.Does H. Waiter Green, the Mills County attorney, feel he has some of that egg on his face? “Yeah, pretty much,” he says.Green is bitter, defense attorneys are bitter, the cops are bitter, the defendants are bitter.Says Danny Tegeder, one of the defendants; “If I'd go into Glenwood and see (one specific member of the raiding party) on the street without his little tin badge, I'd be tempted to mess up bis face.“Sure, I yelled at him some, but when he said, 'Get those hands up!' they went up. There was no reason for himwas drawing ADC while in Mills County.Most all of the group have had previous brushes with the law, but nothing serious. None has done any prison time.A|r««d to talkThey agree to talk after Green tells the Glenwood newspaper that “there is no possibility that additional charges will be filed against any of the defendants in connection with the raid.”All freely admit they have, from time to time, smoked pot. All freely admit that prior to the bust, there was carefully calculated harvesting of hemp, the wild weed that can be processed into marijuana — low grade marijuana, but still marijuana.Danny Tegeder says the harvesting was being done “because we were just trying to keep our heads above waterfiffiibn^isallV iiicf Itlrcs gstfgawurknA oIcathat was an overnight process. Then when we could, we’d brick it.”Fitzpatrick says the plan was that when there were several hundred bricks, he would conceal them in his camper and drive them to the Southwest. There's really no danger in hauling it,’’ he says, “as long as you don't get too high on the way, or break any traffic laws.”He says the bricked Iowa marijuana— despite its notoriously low potency— will sell for |25 to |30 a pound locally, but will bring $40 a pound or more in the Southwest.“We figure we could have brought home $40,000 from the trip, he says, “and that's why we were doing it. I've never had any money, and I just wanted something to let my kids get a little ahead for a change.Tegeder says he was not going to transport his marijuana anywhere. “Whoever was going to get it was going
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Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Iowa, US
Sun, Dec 12, 1976
Page 93
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Council B.
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