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Wo/Men’s seeks return of pot
By BRIAN SEALS
SENTINEL STAFF WRITER
As promised, attorneys for a local medical marijuana cooperative whose garden was raided by federal agents Sept. 5 will be in court today to try to get its pot plants back.
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The motion will seek the return of at least 130 marijuana plants seized by the Drug Enforcement Agency, as well as personal items belonging to alliance co-founders Mike and Valerie Corral that were taken during the raid, attorneys said. The U.S. Attorneys Office has not filed criminal charges against the Corrals, and has not said whether any are planned.

Rice said he and Uelmen plan to attack the agency’s probable cause for getting a search warrant. He said the affidavit shows that probable cause was based on viewing the alliance’s Web site and on a fly-over of the Davenport property where the garden was located.
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DEA spokesman Richard Meyer said he could not speak to specifics of the case. But he said the agency would fight returning the marijuana in any case.

"We’re not a marijuana distribution center," Meyer said. "We seize drugs."
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