News (Media Awareness Project) - Canada: Kubby Busted While In Canada |
| Title: | Canada: Kubby Busted While In Canada |
| Published On: | 2002-04-18 |
| Source: | Auburn Journal (CA) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-01-23 12:30:55 |
KUBBY BUSTED WHILE IN CANADA
Fugitive Being Held On Immigration Warrant
Placer County fugitive Steven Kubby -- who has said the 120-day jail term
he has been ordered to serve in Placer County on misdemeanor drug charges
would be a death sentence -- has been arrested in Canada by immigration
officials.
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police official in Sechelt, British Columbia said
Wednesday that Kubby was taken into custody the day before on a passport
and immigration warrant. He now faces potential removal to the United States.
Under the warrant, Kubby is to argue his case to remain in Canada at an
enquiry before an adjudicator in nearby Vancouver. Kubby, a medicinal
marijuana advocate and former Libertarian party gubernatorial candidate in
California failed to show up July 20 at North Auburn's Placer County Jail
to begin serving a 120-day sentence. A bench warrant was subsequently
issued for his arrest on violation of probation charges.
From his new home in Sechelt, British Columbia, Kubby said nothing had
been settled in court and that he had faced the choice of becoming a
fugitive or "being murdered" in Placer County Jail. Kubby has been
diagnosed with a rare form of adrenal cancer that he says heavy, regular
marijuana use controls.
Kubby won acquittal last year on charges that he grew 265 pot plants at his
Olympic Valley home for personal profit but was convicted on charges of
possession of small amounts of the drugs peyote and magic mushrooms. Kubby
was told by jail officials that he wouldn't be able to smoke cannabis while
serving time on the peyote and magic mushroom charges.
Kubby's wife, Michele Kubby n who was acquitted on all charges connected to
the 1998 raid n said Wednesday that her husband's arrest may have been
precipitated by recent media attention surrounding his case in Canada.
Kubby said her husband is in a "life or death" situation while in custody
because officers wouldn't allow him to take marijuana with him or smoke
before he was taken away.
Kubby, 54, serves as co-anchor for the Internet's Pot-TV news with his wife.
Fugitive Being Held On Immigration Warrant
Placer County fugitive Steven Kubby -- who has said the 120-day jail term
he has been ordered to serve in Placer County on misdemeanor drug charges
would be a death sentence -- has been arrested in Canada by immigration
officials.
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police official in Sechelt, British Columbia said
Wednesday that Kubby was taken into custody the day before on a passport
and immigration warrant. He now faces potential removal to the United States.
Under the warrant, Kubby is to argue his case to remain in Canada at an
enquiry before an adjudicator in nearby Vancouver. Kubby, a medicinal
marijuana advocate and former Libertarian party gubernatorial candidate in
California failed to show up July 20 at North Auburn's Placer County Jail
to begin serving a 120-day sentence. A bench warrant was subsequently
issued for his arrest on violation of probation charges.
From his new home in Sechelt, British Columbia, Kubby said nothing had
been settled in court and that he had faced the choice of becoming a
fugitive or "being murdered" in Placer County Jail. Kubby has been
diagnosed with a rare form of adrenal cancer that he says heavy, regular
marijuana use controls.
Kubby won acquittal last year on charges that he grew 265 pot plants at his
Olympic Valley home for personal profit but was convicted on charges of
possession of small amounts of the drugs peyote and magic mushrooms. Kubby
was told by jail officials that he wouldn't be able to smoke cannabis while
serving time on the peyote and magic mushroom charges.
Kubby's wife, Michele Kubby n who was acquitted on all charges connected to
the 1998 raid n said Wednesday that her husband's arrest may have been
precipitated by recent media attention surrounding his case in Canada.
Kubby said her husband is in a "life or death" situation while in custody
because officers wouldn't allow him to take marijuana with him or smoke
before he was taken away.
Kubby, 54, serves as co-anchor for the Internet's Pot-TV news with his wife.
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