NEW MARIJUANA CHARGES FOR FOUR FROM POT CLUB ARRESTS IN FEB.

Oakland Tribune (CA)- Bay City News Service

Sun, 3 Mar 2002

SAN FRANCISCO -- Four men arrested in a Bay Area marijuana sweep last month have been indicted on additional charges by a federal grand jury in San Francisco.

Three defendants -- Kenneth Hayes of Petaluma, Richard Watts of San Francisco and Edward Rosenthal of Oakland -- are allegedly associated with the Harm Reduction Center, a medical marijuana club in San Francisco.

They were indicted Thursday on a new charge of conspiring to cultivate more than 1,000 marijuana plants in addition to counts of marijuana cultivation.

The fourth defendant, James Halloran of Oakland, was charged in a separate indictment with cultivating more than 1,000 plants, growing marijuana within 1,000 feet of a playground and maintaining premises at East 12th Street in Oakland for the purpose of growing marijuana.

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