A 27-year-old Broomfield man was arrested Thursday after SWAT officers served a search warrant on his home and found a huge cache of illegally grown marijuana.
A patrol officer became suspicious of the home in the 300 block of Beryl Street “when he was driving by on patrol and smelled a very strong odor of marijuana,” said Broomfield police Sgt. Heidi Walts.
SWAT officers found 160 plants and a “large amount” of dried marijuana, she said. They arrested the home’s resident, Jason Stanley, who is being held in the Broomfield Detention Center on $10,000 bail.
“He did not have a medical- marijuana license, and he was not a caregiver,” Walts said.
Records show Stanley has been cited twice before on drug charges. He was issued a ticket by the Colorado State Patrol in December 2007 on a drug-paraphernalia charge in Broomfield, but the charge was dismissed by the DA.
He was arrested by the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office in July 2005 on possession of less than an ounce of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. That case also was dismissed.
A neighbor, Lindsay Smith, said police told her the home was a suspected illegal marijuana grow operation after the raid about 1 p.m. “That’s what we suspected,” Smith told the Broomfield Enterprise newspaper. “We could smell it.”
