I'd be so pissed if they broke into my house with loaded weapons simply because the electric company gave them a "tip". Those rat bastards got their money for the bill but then ratted him out. It isn't their job to report electricity use to the police, their not cops, that guy should be suing them and the cops. Cops are to lazy to do any kind of investigation and just kick in doors from miscellaneous tips. What did they find computers and some weed, tax dollars well spent I'd say.
Did you bother for half a minute to actually read the thread.
Read what BCX has posted just above you:
The reason the warrant was issued was him using eight times the normal usage of a residence *AND* because he had previous history of operating growing houses.
This isn't a case where some innocent person was raided due to simply using too much electricity. It was that fact combined with his previous criminal history.
Whatever your personal feelings are regarding MJ, growing it in Virginia is still very much illegal.
Mining Bitcoin wasn't the issue, it was the grow operation that got him in trouble.
~BCX~
I really don't understand why the some of the guys here on the forum try to pose always in victims of the system and cry how the government is raping their innocent asses every day.
The guy had a history if growing marijuana , he had drugs in his house , what more do you want.
So if a guy that has a criminal record for car theft has suddenly 10 cars in his yard the cops shouldn't investigate it?