MILL CREEK — Some people take coffee with cream. Others with sugar.
Coffee drinks come tall, grande, venti, frozen, skinny, nonfat, heavy on the whip or with a pump of vanilla.
Here’s a new one: How about a triple tall “extra high” cappuccino?
Police believe a Mill Creek espresso stand may be the first in Snohomish County to offer lattes with a shot of marijuana on the side.
An undercover detective with the Snohomish Regional Drug Task Force last week twice purchased pot from the business, according to a search warrant affidavit filed Friday.
It’s a story that could rival the plot of the hit Showtime cable TV show “Weeds.”
On the show, actress Mary- Louise Parker plays Nancy Botwin, a suburban soccer mom who starts selling pot to support her two boys and the family’s standard of living.
The primary suspect in the Snohomish County case is an attractive Mill Creek woman, 46. She has not been arrested or charged so The Herald is not yet naming her.
Photos of the woman posted on an Internet site show her posing with her handsome son.
The Mill Creek business appears to be a family affair. Police claim they purchased weed at the stand, south of the Silver Firs neighborhood, from both the woman and her son’s girlfriend.
The investigation began within the past month when a confidential informant told detectives that the woman was selling more than coffee.
The informant told investigators that pot was available at both the woman’s house and the stand, which is on the same property, police said
An undercover detective went to check things out for himself last week.
He drove up and the woman took his order.
She reportedly walked over to her house and came back with a coffee cup holding just under .2 ounces of marijuana, police said.
The woman agreed to sell the detective more marijuana later that day. She said she had the illegal drugs pre-packed in small amounts in her home and that her son’s girlfriend would be working, but she was in on the gig.
The girlfriend was expecting the undercover detective when he returned, police said. She left the espresso stand, went to the house and returned with just under an ounce of marijuana in a paper bag, police said.
Police on Friday seized suspected marijuana, drug scales, cash, bongs, pipes and other drug paraphernalia, the search warrant said.
The sixth season of “Weeds” is expected to start this summer. No word yet if the show’s characters will be making lattes.
Jackson Holtz: 425-339-3437, jholtz@heraldnet.com.
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