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By Beacon Journal staff
POSTED: 05:20 p.m. EDT, Oct 20, 2009
Wadsworth police raided a home this week, seizing an indoor marijuana growing operation and several thousand dollars in cash.
William R. Duncan, 25, of First Street, was arrested following the raid on his home, police said. He was charged with cultivating marijuana.
Wadsworth police and the Medway Drug Enforcement Agency searched the home Monday morning.
Police say they recovered marijuana plants in different stages of growth, along with cocaine, prescription drugs and more than $12,000 in cash. City firefighters were needed to remove the contraband and evidence.
Police say the investigation is continuing and more charges could be filed. Anyone with information on this or any crime in Wadsworth can call police at 330-334-1511, or by e-mailing wadsworthpd@gmail.com. Anonymous tips can be left at 330-335-2769.
Wadsworth police raided a home this week, seizing an indoor marijuana growing operation and several thousand dollars in cash.
William R. Duncan, 25, of First Street, was arrested following the raid on his home, police said. He was charged with cultivating marijuana.
Wadsworth police and the Medway Drug Enforcement Agency searched the home Monday morning.
Police say they recovered marijuana plants in different stages of growth, along with cocaine, prescription drugs and more than $12,000 in cash. City firefighters were needed to remove the contraband and evidence.
Police say the investigation is continuing and more charges could be filed. Anyone with information on this or any crime in Wadsworth can call police at 330-334-1511, or by e-mailing wadsworthpd@gmail.com. Anonymous tips can be left at 330-335-2769.
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Canton, OH
Posted 05:28 PM, 10/20/2009
C'Mon, Grizzlies, C'Mon. . .
barberton, oh
Posted 05:31 PM, 10/20/2009
25, no way 2 start life out. Big $ and no work. No chance of getting out of this hit. That hurts...
akron, oh
Posted 05:47 PM, 10/20/2009
if i didnt have a fear of going to prison i would grow marijuana too. it is a shame that the public has to live in fear from it's own goverment
Akron, Oh
Posted 06:08 PM, 10/20/2009
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peeper
akron, oh
Posted 05:47 PM, 10/20/2009
if i didnt have a fear of going to prison i would grow marijuana too. it is a shame that the public has to live in fear from it's own goverment
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Sounds like you live in fear of breaking the law. Don't be scared...prison is full of people that weren't scared to try something stupid. You will get there one day, I'm sure!
Posted 06:10 PM, 10/20/2009
Wadsworth has crime. The recession has hit the burbs finally. Opps they been doing that forever (growing and selling)how do you think it hits the akron streets. Duh
the rowdy, oh
Posted 07:24 PM, 10/20/2009
gonna be dry for awhile out there huh? that sux
Dade City, Fl
Posted 07:25 PM, 10/20/2009
@peeper- I don;t live in fear of my government. This year marks 40 years of me smoking marijuana on a daily basis.
I have a high school diploma, graduated college, worked since I was 14 yrs old, paid all child support for one child from first marriage, raised three boys, worked in Information Sytems for over 18 years, worked in a hospital for 14 years in Information Systems, Own my own business now, Own 2 cars and 2 homes and have never been in trouble with the law ever.
Gandhi says "It is unmanly for a man to follow ridiculous laws, it is our duty to break them". Anything else is being a lazy coward.
Atlantic City, NJ
Posted 07:48 PM, 10/20/2009
@Mars Bonfire: same post as last night on another story.I'm happy for you that you have something to brag about and are evidently proud of but as of today it is still illegal. As for all your accomplishments,good for you. I guess I'm more of a success than you because I have 3 homes, 4 cars,a boat, and a successful marriage of 28 years with 4 children and no child support.And all this without your grass for all your success. Question is,who is better off in the long run??
norton, oh
Posted 07:49 PM, 10/20/2009
I knew this guy. I just saw him at the gas station about two weeks ago. Man, what the heck, can't he bus tables or something. Get a life Bill!!
akron, oh
Posted 08:20 PM, 10/20/2009
hey Mars--this state is still in dark ages, you get a bad job without a test.
Only ceo's and civil jobs
uniontown, oh
Posted 10:57 PM, 10/20/2009
I thought Obama was cool with it? Whats up? Good Luck.
Clebus, RI
Posted 11:07 PM, 10/20/2009
Go Browns!
Akron, Oh
Posted 11:11 PM, 10/20/2009
@Mars Bonfire
Keep that smoking up. What a list of accomplishments. Good job for a pothead.
akron, oh
Posted 06:20 AM, 10/21/2009
@mars bonfire,
Gandhi also said;"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err".
even though i agree with you, anything else is being a a**hole. puff, puff, pass!
akron, oh
Posted 06:30 AM, 10/21/2009
@mars bonfire,
Gandhi also said;"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err".
even though i agree with you, anything else is being a anus. puff, puff, pass dude.
hope this repost appeases the editing gods.
barberton, oh
Posted 03:00 PM, 10/21/2009
people we are in a depression... i knew this man not well but well enough to no he has never been in trouble a day in his life. some facts the police didnt tell you.. he put a roof over his wife and familys head he was a high school graduate he was putting his wife and himself thru college, with the money from the things he was doing ... now look he will prob be put in prison for the next 5 years for what being backed in to a corner feeling like he had no other options then to do what he was to provide for his family..hes a good man and they need to cut him a break im not saying what he did was right, but dam whats a man suppost to do these days when there aint no work anywere...
akron, oh
Posted 03:06 PM, 10/21/2009
@b radical: I empathize with your position.
Akron, OH
Posted 03:59 PM, 10/21/2009
I am the great Panty Filth. Perhaps you've heard of me. Perhaps you know my reputation.
Akron, Oh
Posted 04:06 PM, 10/21/2009
It is illegal. Simple
AKRON, OH
Posted 04:20 PM, 10/21/2009
Hey, where's Loreen been?!!
Akron, Oh
Posted 04:31 PM, 10/21/2009
If he could learn to be more discreet, I could turn him on to plenty of customers.
columbus, oh
Posted 04:32 PM, 10/21/2009
Wadsworth folks smoke too! Just to make a point, drugs are not always in the hood. Quiet neighborhoods are the best hiding places. No one is safe anymore!
Norton, oh
Posted 04:57 PM, 10/21/2009
I have no problem w/ weed. just meth labs and drunk drivers and pill pushers. Make weed legal!
everywhere, oh
Posted 05:35 PM, 10/21/2009
b radical - I don't care if you smoke, just don't smoke and type.
canton, oh
Posted 09:14 PM, 10/21/2009
this is at B RADICAL... I totallt agree with you!! I have known him and his family for yrs!!! this man HAS NOTHING and by NOTHING i mean NOTHING on his record at all!!! NOT A CRIMINAL bone in his body!!! He loves his wife and children unconditionally and HE ALWAYS made sure they were taking care of, and since we are in a recession, ppl should take into consideration that he did what HE HAD to take care of them!!! His children have what they need!! His wife depends on him to pay bills well with no jobs in this economy how could he do that?!?! How could he take care of his children?!!? there is WAYYY worse going on!! Come on wadsworth is the CITY that DOESNT SLEEP, so whats that tell ya!!
Barberton, OH
Posted 10:56 PM, 10/21/2009
Wadsworth is full of drugs and anyone that thinks otherwise is completely ignorant or misinformed. Pot should be legal anyways. Also, the people on this site that comment every single day, every single case and say "It's illegal.. period" without taking into consideration even one thing.......... I seriously hope you all get caught breaking some kind of stupid a** law and get a record. Then maybe you will get your head out of your a** for once in your life instead of thinking that you're so much better than everyone that has gotten caught!!!
Burnin' Paradise,
Posted 11:33 PM, 10/21/2009
temper temper
akron, oh
Posted 01:26 AM, 10/22/2009
do we live by Gods rules or the devils rules ???
akron, oh
Posted 05:55 AM, 10/22/2009
did the sypathizers miss that he had cocaine & prescription drugs plus a $12,000 dollar stash. as long as you sell from your house & it's not crack then way to go i guess. you make this guy sound like an entrepreneur. or are you just his customers & the shakes are setting in. WTF!
akron, oh
Posted 06:43 AM, 10/22/2009
@ wethepeople,
we live by majority rules. when the majority are Godless, this is what happens. long live the minority.
CuyahogaFalls, oh
Posted 07:55 AM, 10/22/2009
Wow and I thought unemployment was going down!
stow, oh
Posted 08:47 AM, 10/22/2009
I have to say that I think all the drug laws are asinine. Obviously they DONT WORK. We have thousands and thousands of people in jail on drug related charges. We don't need laws, we need people to start being parents to their children and setting the example. That is not the governments job. Drugs do not create the violence and problems. Keeping them illegal does. That is why gangs and cartels flourish. Not only that but we are losing BILLIONS, yes BILLIONS in tax dollars. So we could have taxed this guy and fixed a road or something. But no, we to SPEND money to arrest, detain, charge and sentence this man. Not to mention paying a parole officer to watch him after his sentence. Are you people blind??
akron, oh
Posted 09:06 AM, 10/22/2009
In Wadsworth??? Crime happens everywhere!!!
Mogadore, Oh
Posted 09:40 AM, 10/22/2009
Next thing you know they are going to want my Cuban cigars. Ain't gonna happen.
cuyahoga falls, oh
Posted 11:31 AM, 10/22/2009
just as big of a crime as the man arrested yesterday for making indecent exposure who was making coffee, nude in his own home, at 5:30 a.m.
we need to recover this country from the rich clucks that have stolen it and several trillion of our tax dollars we haven't even paid yet...can you imagine if robbers could collect iou's in holdups like our congressmen can? "meet me back here next year with the thousand dollars you owe me from today's robbery"
we are a nation of pushovers, if not cowards.
cuyahoga falls, oh
Posted 11:33 AM, 10/22/2009
our government has an obligation to have job opportunity -- not jail -- available for Duncan and his generation's future...we have been clucked by the chickens in the henhouse; clucked to death
Cleveland, OH
Posted 12:02 PM, 10/22/2009
Tossed in the clink for growing plants that God gave us. Unnatural.
Paradise, Oh
Posted 12:48 PM, 10/22/2009
Wadsworth pigs will have mucho munchies now that they have replenished their stash.
Akron, Oh
Posted 01:16 PM, 10/22/2009
It will remain illegal as long as pharmaceutical and liquor corporations sponsor the FDA. duh!
Richfield, OH
Posted 01:31 PM, 10/22/2009
Mars - you better watch out. With all of those homes and cars the carbon police will be out to get you.
akron, oh
Posted 02:50 PM, 10/22/2009
I'm sure it was all for legit medical reasons!
Posted 04:47 PM, 10/22/2009
wow people sure seem to have a problem weed smokers.I don't get it.Why????
everywhere, oh
Posted 04:53 PM, 10/22/2009
Jussme - stop smoking crack and work on your writing skills.
akron, oh
Posted 07:23 PM, 10/22/2009
freakinmuffin
Illegal is illegal, so sad to bad, Get a life!
Posted 08:31 AM, 10/23/2009
Legalize marijuana!
Posted 08:51 AM, 10/23/2009
Marco Summerville said, ''In my neighborhood, we say, 'Hate the game, not the player.' ''
Which neighborhood would that be, Marco?
Posted 11:51 AM, 10/23/2009
i see most people is defending this guy..dot get me wrong i agree its only weed leave him alone..but i see alot of people taking his side but if he got caught in akron and was black there would be alot of negative comments towrds this story...not talking to anyone specific but i've seen and been involved in stories where we aint get caught with as much but it was alot of negativity
