Also, just guessing, I would suspect that this Canadian isn’t rich enough to extort. 300 pot plants isn’t a ton of money wholesale, and these plants were confiscated. Judging from the guy’s age, I would also suspect that he doesn’t have pension or similar income, but is one of those premature expats who needs to make a buck here to support himself. Not least, while again I wouldn’t know, a guy who grows pot on public land probably isn’t hooked up well with organized crime. He’s more likely to have been an independent entrepreneur than connected to real money.

I do myself wonder whether cops prefer to bust pot growers and the like over more dangerous criminals, simply because it’s safer. Heck, I would if I were a cop. Who wants to get shot at when you can get your arrest numbers up busting a docile pot grower?

Oh, my recollection is that Costa Rica is considering a law to allow state confiscation of property in cases like this, but the law hasn’t passed yet. I could be wrong, but I think this is the status. The state though confiscates the property, and while it may be stolen by officials after it’s confiscated, that’s in house corruption.

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It’s a strange attitude that is pretty common among expats. It’s best to play nice with people who are in a position to seriously mess with your life. But for some strange reason some people feel the need to tell the Ticos about how CR is sooo messed up, even though they chose to leave their own country to live here.

Reading between the lines, the fellow seems to have really annoyed the authorities, probably an attitude thing though possibly suspicions that he was involved in far worse. Reading still further between the lines, if he’s got any money left he’ll probably prevail on an appeal and get the whole thing settled in half or a third the time.

However, at the moment his goose is really cooked. Funny how law enforcement works. Every once in awhile people who break laws get punished.