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You have an anonymous tip, which standing alone is not enough. Then you have corroboration in the form of actual trace amounts of cannabis, drug related materials including a package that at one time contained seeds, and THE ELECTRIC BILL. When taken together, it is more probably than not that a crime was being committed there - i.e those missing seeds were being cultivated.

Now, how do you know the tip was truly anonymous and not offered by a confidential informant?



The affidavit summarized it as an anonymous tip, and tip was only one sentence long. We asked for full transcript of tip and were told we have everything. We also asked for review of all applications for warrant, as they must have attempted more than once.

Tip= not enough
1st garbage pull + tip = still must have been not enough. took 13 more months

Moved.... 13 months later

2nd garbage pull with no indices in same bag= not enough

2 weeks later...

Electric bill= finally enough.