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Target of medical marijuana raid: 'I feel like I have been raped'

Submitted by Marijuana News on Mon, 08/17/2015 - 23:17

APACHE COUNTY, AZ (KPHO/KTVK) -

"I feel like I have been raped and given a death sentence," says 54-year-old medical marijuana patient Gregg Levendoski.

Levendoski -- who is HIV positive, has hepatitis C and multiple forms of cancer -- said he was victimized last week when a task force of some 60 law officers, including SWAT teams, raided his remote and isolated property in Apache County at about 4 a.m. It was a multi-agency operation meant to find illegally grown marijuana.

"I was telling them from the moment I was standing there underneath the lights of their tanks, 'We are card-holding medical marijuana patients,'" Levendoski said. "They told me, 'I don’t care.'"

Levendoski, his girlfriend and his son all were arrested during the raid.   

"They are violating the law," Commander Lance Spivey of the Apache County Sheriff’s Office said on the day of the raid. "Even if...

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