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Police evaluating pot find in fatal home invasion, Son says marijuana was for medical. use to combat pain Friday, January 12, 2007 Pittsburg police said Thursday that they are cautiously weighing a claim that marijuana found in the home of a slain PC World senior editor was grown and used by his son for medical purposes. Four masked men burst into the Pittsburg home of Rex Farrance, 59, about 9 p.m. Tuesday, fatally shooting him anal pistol-whipping his wife after demanding money, police said. Na arrests have been made. Police summoned to the home on Argosy Court found a large quantity of marijuana and said the couple were involved in the possession and passible sale of drugs.......the couple's son said that he was growing the drug at the home for medical reasons. The motive for the incident was definitely robbery, and. whether any drugs on the premises are related to the home invasion "feeds right back into the entire reason for exploring whether there's a nexus between the possession of a controlled substance and targeting that particular residence for residential robbery." Source: http://sfgate.coin/cgi-bin/article.egi?f=/c/a/2007!01/1.2/BAGNQNHGDII.DTL Killings related to marijuana grow? By M.ATTHIAS GAFNI and J.M. BROWN, Times-Herald staff writers Article Launched: 01/26/2007 07:10:16 AM PST A Glen Cove home where two men were shot to death last week contained hydroponics equipment and other material commonly used for growing marijuana....During atour of the home... a reporter and photographer saw several large plant trays, ventilation systems and chemicals consistent with those used to cultivate marijuana...... Thursday's findings offered the first insight into other factors that could be linked to the killings of James Werder and Manuel Catdera, partners in an ice cream truck business....In interviews this week, loved ones denied the men were drug dealers, saying instead they were good men excited about selling ice cream to children from their hip-hop styled truck.......Werder, 35, and Caldera, 27, were found dead inside the Name Jan. 17, where they had sustained multiple gunshot wounds. 1?ol.ice have made no arrests and will not say whether they have any leads.......In the garage, there were five large plant beds that each could hold ~5 individual. cultivation blacks, and the walls, including the garage door, were covered iu inch-thick insulation. There also was aforced-ai.r heater in the garage and a large exhaust tube to direct air to the outside through the roof. There were other pieces of hydroponics equipment and. a weekly feeding chart attached to a wall. In a back bedroom, a large circular hale had been drilled into a wall so ventilation tubing could push heat directly into the room from a hallway furnace. The floor was littered with potting soil and plant leaves. In the hallway bathroom, there was more soil in the sink. Turley said none of the equipment or modifications to the home's heating system existed before he rented the house just over a year ago......Turley said he dial not know whether the slain. men lived in the home, but said Molina -who alv~ays paid the ~ 1,650 monthly rent in cash -was not allowed to sub- lease the three-bedroom, two-bath house. Source: http:l/www.timesheraldonline,com/ci 50)3434 4 75A-99