Second-grader spills the beans on mom’s boyfriend’s pot farm

By Associated Press

   

February 25, 2016 | 2:31pm

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Police nabbed Steven Mann and Leona Hunt after an 8-year-old told school officials about the "special medicine" he helped Mann grow. Photo: Getty Images, Windsor Vermont Police Department (inserts)

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Vt. — Authorities say a second-grader’s story about helping a farmer grow “special medicine” plants led to a big marijuana bust in Vermont.
The Times-Argus reports Windsor Detective Jennifer Frank said in an affidavit that the 8-year-old told school officials and police that he got to help his mother’s boyfriend grow “special medicine that can cure anything at all.”
Frank says the boy told her that people came to the Windsor house frequently.
Fifty-four-year-old Steven Mann pleaded not guilty this week in a White River Junction court to a felony count of cultivating more than 25 marijuana plants. A woman who answered a phone listing for a Steven Mann in Windsor County said it was the wrong number.
Police say they found two “grow rooms” next to the child’s bedroom.