It took a year for Robert and Adlynn Harte to find out why sheriff’s deputies thought they had drugs. They finally have the court documents to explain it, and they show the raid was prompted by two events: the Hartes’ visit to a hydroponics store and tests that deputies did on some leaves they found in the Hartes’ trash. Those tests, the documents show, later proved to be inaccurate. In fact, the Hartes think the leaves were tea. Original post on kansascity.com Comments on reddit.com
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