SOUTH HADLEY - Acting on a tip, local and state police converged on a Susan Avenue home and reportedly discovered more than 20 marijuana plants growing in a backyard garden and a ledger tracking sales in one of the home's bedrooms, allegations the teen charged with the cultivation denied in court Monday.
Raymond J. Gagne, 19, of 50 Susan Ave., pleaded innocent in Eastern Hampshire District Court to charges of possessing a class D substance (marijuana) with intent to distribute and possessing a class D substance.
According to court documents, Detective Todd Dineen heard from a confidential informant that Gagne, who police said had been known in the past to grow marijuana plants in front of his house, had a fresh batch of new plants growing out back. After receiving a search warrant out of Eastern Hampshire District Court, local officers and state police troopers searched the home Aug. 4 and found 24 marijuana plants growing in the garden and dried marijuana plants, assorted drug paraphernalia and a drug ledger recording names and amounts owed in Gagne's bedroom, according to a police report.
Judge John Payne Jr. ordered Gagne released on his own recognizance and scheduled him to reappear in court for a pretrial hearing next week.
- OWEN BOSS
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