Police Strike Out In Search For Bat-Wielding Pot Suspects Elderly Landlady Was Hit In The Head After Discovering Tenants’ Plants

Sheriff’s deputies searched a Twin Lakes house early Friday looking for marijuana plants and a man who hit a 60-year-old woman in the head with a baseball bat.

They found neither during the 5 a.m. raid and still are searching for two brothers who are suspected of growing the marijuana and attacking the woman, said Kootenai County sheriff’s Capt. Ben Wolfinger.

Beverly Brisson of Twin Lakes was attacked Tuesday, a day after she discovered several suspect plants growing in a tenant’s house. She did not contact authorities until Thursday, according to a deputy’s report. She was hospitalized at Kootenai Medical Center for two days after the attack and has a large bump and severe bruising above her left eye, Wolfinger said.

Brisson told deputies she was attacked in her front yard by a man who approached her from behind and said, “Don’t say nothin’.” She turned around in time to see the bat just before she was knocked unconscious, according to the report.

She had found and photographed eight or nine plants growing in black pots inside a house Monday while trying to collect rent from two brothers who share the house, she told deputies. The plants, 2 to 3 feet tall, were in the living room, the report said.

Brisson tried again Tuesday evening to collect the rent from the brothers. However, when they demanded Brisson make several repairs, including heating the crawl space, she told them she could not afford the repairs, returned their money and asked them to move out.

Deputies are examining film taken from Brisson’s camera and are following leads that may lead them to the brothers, Wolfinger said.

, DataTimes