Headline of the Week Weak

"Girl Scout Camp Marijuana Farm Busted"

Forget about the cookies! What about the pot brownies??? CLICK HERE to read the article accompanying this headline.

Girl Scout Camp Marijuana Farm Busted
Camp Officials Horrified To Learn That 5,000 Plants Had Been Found Growing On Their Grounds

Police found thousands of marijuana plants being grown in a remote part of a Girl Scout camp, according to court documents and a scout official.

Officials at Camp Ella J. Logan were dismayed when they found out what had happened, said Sherri Weidman, chief executive of the Limberlost Girl Scout Council.

Police found the hidden marijuana farm with plants in various stages of cultivation in a wooded swampy area of Kosciusko County, according to documents filed Monday in U.S. District Court in South Bend. Some of the plants were growing on land belonging to a local resident, while the bulk - about 5,000 plants - were growing on camp land. State troopers in an airplane spotted the plots.

Mario Comacho, 44, Mariano Gonzales, 38, and a juvenile were arrested last week after police found the farm. Comacho and Gonzales, both of Goshen, appeared for an initial hearing Monday in federal court on charges of possession of more than 1,000 marijuana plants with the intent to distribute. Neither man had an attorney, according to court documents.

Johnny Coy, who owns part of the land where the pot was found growing, said he wasn't aware of the operation and rarely visits the swampy area.

Weidman said the area was in a remote part of the 220-acre camp accessible only by wading through the muck or taking a canoe. The land was bought by the council to provide a safety buffer, she said.

Parents of campers were informed of the discovery when they picked up their children.

Posted: Jul 18, 2008 at 9:45 am / Email this »

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83 comments to “Headline of the Week Weak”

bellyphatt says – reply to this

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Too funny!
allie says – reply to this

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haha 1st
Kimop says – reply to this

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Where was this kind of thing when I was a Girl Scout??
niq says – reply to this

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OH SHIT. I can't believe they found our stash!! I'm going to lose my botany badge for this.
Officer Feisty says – reply to this

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Wwhhaatt???
lalapisani says – reply to this

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lol HAHAHAHAHAHA
The Big One1 says – reply to this

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Thats a whole lotta weed. Can i get some?
Sydne says – reply to this

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Sweet…I love those cookies when I am high!
Sarah says – reply to this

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uuuum, tenth?
CaCaCarKeys says – reply to this

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no wonder those girls had so much fun when they went to camp!
Caitl says – reply to this

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o.o so what really happened..? lol
EastLansinglove says – reply to this

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Shit, they found my marijuana plants!!!!
Delicious_D says – reply to this

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Crazyness!
allpe says – reply to this

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kRAZI says – reply to this

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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I now want 2/b a girlscout….

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shel says – reply to this

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I knew they had to be putting something in those cookies! At $4 a box, they'd better start putting crack in them.
fed u says – reply to this

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it is amazing to me that the press had to use the words 'Girl Scout' in the headline to get more attention. The plants had nothing to do with the girl scouts, and I am sure that none of the girls were 'wading through the muck or taking a canoe' into the swamp.
dina says – reply to this

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OLD NEWS…THIS HAPPENED OVER A WEEK AGO….
amartin says – reply to this

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thats great ..lol .. some lil girls gettin high an eattin cookies
Laure says – reply to this

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LOL
chesh says – reply to this

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Re: niq –

Your comment made me crack up lol

must be a summer of love for them girlscouts *grin*
manda says – reply to this

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Damn, all they had at my camp when I was a Girl Scout was stupid banana slugs.
shilee. says – reply to this

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haha
notme says – reply to this

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I am a proud resident of kosciusko county
Annie says – reply to this

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Damn wetbacks. I hope they get deported.
Pot says – reply to this

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MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMarijuana. Wish I would have encountered that field before the Law. Love the ganja.

Smoque
FUann says – reply to this

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Re: Annie – FU!
abcde says – reply to this

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weeeeeeds bad!
hollllllllllllllllllllllla!
Shelb says – reply to this

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Why the fuck wasn't I able to go to this girl scout camp?! I wouldn't mind going around identifying plants all day.
Camil says – reply to this

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So that's how they get their cookies to be so damn addictive.
Marci says – reply to this

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OMG!! I WENT to that camp!! came back all sorts of messed up… maybe that explains why!
cc says – reply to this

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of course they had to use Girl Scout in the headline, it gets your attention. just like Perez did, printing this, making us read it and find that the Girl Scouts basically had nothing to do with it and were being used. My daughter is a GS and if I picked her up from camp and was told this, it would not bother me. If a bunch of counselors were arrested for smoking it around the girls, than I would be concerned. Wish there was a way for the GirlScouts to sue for everyone like Perez who are going for readership instead of integrity by making the gs look bad
lefty lady says – reply to this

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OMFG. Yeah, they'd make WAYYYY more money selling special brownies!!! Mmmm…….special thin mints would be good too….
funny says – reply to this

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Now we know why they sell those cookies-it's for the munchies you get after smoking pot! Pretty smart business move if you ask me!
Shana says – reply to this

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I think it's funny that the lady in charge's name is Weidman.
jaqua says – reply to this

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talk about earning your 'gardening patch'!!!!
freddy2fan says – reply to this

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HAHAHAHAHA!
Killo says – reply to this

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HA! The Tough Cookies are NAUGHTY!!
Hanap says – reply to this

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Looks like there's a reason why peeps in Indiana….stay in INDIANA!
lala says – reply to this

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l-e-g-a-l-i-z-e it

end the crazy drug war that's killing our country

it only enriches criminals

let people be goofy if they want to be
KGB says – reply to this

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SMOKE IF YA GOT IT!!!!!!
Just says – reply to this

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Ok, so this actually happened on the lake I live on. The property was owned by the camp but usuable due to the swamp land. And once counted there was 6,000 plants. But it is pretty bad ass to see we made Perez.
E says – reply to this

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hahahhaha i live there, it's fucking hilarious. stuff like this happens all the time around here though.
Nej says – reply to this

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Too funny. I live in Indiana (about an hour from Goshen). Never would have guessed; never heard anything on the news either. The Girl Scouts weren't that interesting when i was little ! lol
Jerkygirl says – reply to this

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Girls Scouts suck!!! The administrators will do anything to cover up incidents and protect the Girl Scout name-even at the expense of the girls themselves!
I've had some horrible experiences with actual theft of thousands of dollars from my daughter's troop and the leader was never even arrested and the money was never replaced! It was up to the GSA to have charges pressed but they refused to because of the bad publicity that would follow. I have boycotted the Girls Scouts since 2001.
I bet that some Girls Scout adults knew about this and hid it-based on my personal experiences with them!
love' says – reply to this

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LOL
Kelly says – reply to this

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Holy shit. I live there.
Philb says – reply to this

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Re: cc – Thank you for this comment. As a gs leader I appreciate the support for all the people who work their tails off to help the girls everyday. And by the way, troops only get 50 cents per box of cookie, so don't take it out on us! It just takes one bad article like this to bring more bad press, what about all the good GS does, like getting girls out of jail and into positive work situations. Why not write about that?
Hyde says – reply to this

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Yeah, way to go, insinuating that Girl Scouts are growing weed. Asshole.
natal says – reply to this

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HAHAHAHA..
oh that's great.
kendr says – reply to this

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Hey, at least they can make a lot more money than selling cookies, LOL! They should have kept quiet, and profited off it, heheh!
Ms Do says – reply to this

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Jesus Christ!!! I'm sad that they took away our worldly stash!!

WHY BUSH, WHY?????

We Need Our Marijauna Plants…Just let them grow man, let them grow!!
Amy says – reply to this

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Why weren't the Girl Scouts doing this about 18 years ago?
Jessica says – reply to this

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Omigod…can't remember learning how to grow pot in the girl scouts…
allis says – reply to this

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i wanna go to this camp!
Chels says – reply to this

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AHAHAHAH, WHATEVERRR
wow. says – reply to this

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that's crazy.
but i agree that it should be legalized, although i don't smoke or anything,
so much fighting over it,
just do that.
NUMBN says – reply to this

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HAHAHA wow funny !!
kathy says – reply to this

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Re: Annie – fuck you bitch!!
smell says – reply to this

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i love marijuana
Chan says – reply to this

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"Girl Scout Camp Marijuana Farm?" Hmmm, makes me wonder what other illegal operations they were running in that swamp land…
misspositivity says – reply to this

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If only they had pot farms when I was a girl scout….
eh says – reply to this

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OMG PLANTS GROWING IN NATURE??? MUST BE STOPPED!!!!
kerkieberkie says – reply to this

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Wonder if the Brownie (scouts) got baked…
Uhmanduh says – reply to this

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OMG!
little kids are selling pot cookies.haha
What is the world coming too!
allyally420 says – reply to this

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Wow. I used to be a girl scout! *dances*
asdj says – reply to this

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Re: The Big One1 –

stupid asshole.
drugs are BAD.

idiot.
fsei says – reply to this

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shove your c asu al se ek .com up your ass bitch
Rache says – reply to this

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hah that is so awesome.
how sad its all going to go to waste.

nah, the cops will use it.
brand says – reply to this

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pot and thin mints…….together at last.
abby says – reply to this

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Wow!
Nemesiis says – reply to this

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LOVE it! Way to sensationalize some random mexicans growing weed, lol.
livvy says – reply to this

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wow…my troop isnt like that…BUT IT WOULD BE WAAAY MORE FUN IF IT WAS~~~!!!
Matt says – reply to this

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Check this out.
nana says – reply to this

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I want to be a Girl Scout!!!
When will the gov realize this prosecution is worse than than the actual plant? It's a P-L-A-N-T. It's not even poisonous. Jeez.
pothe says – reply to this

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Holy shit, i wish i had that Herb. That's a lot of fucking Herb! Pigs have to ruin everything. This also explains why those peanut butter cookies tasted soo good.
Yesen says – reply to this

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hi
Tati says – reply to this

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Disgusted. >.
Sarah says – reply to this

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I've actually been to this camp when I was younger….I only live 45 mins away from it…crazy.
Amy says – reply to this

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Holy crap! That's the Girl Scout camp I attended when I was a kid in the 80's! That is freakin' hilarious!
perez says – reply to this

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do they give out badges for identifying that PLANT??????????????
Candy Queen says – reply to this

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baaaaaaaaaahahaha weidman… what a cracka.
Nope says – reply to this

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ahahaha i am a girl scout!!