BILLINGS - The state Attorney General's Office has filed a motion to dismiss marijuana related charges against Poplar's police chief, who was arrested in August after authorities found eight pot plants growing inside a building on his property.

The Billings Gazette reports that Assistant Attorney General Chad G. Parker filed the motion this week after a district judge ruled in October a search warrant violated Chad Hilde's rights. The judge also ordered all evidence seized with the warrant to be suppressed.

Hilde was arrested Aug. 3 on suspicion of production or manufacturing of dangerous drugs and criminal possession of dangerous drugs. He told authorities he was allowing a friend to grow medical marijuana in the building and showed them the man's medical marijuana card.

District Judge Richard Cybulski said in his ruling there is no definition of where a licensed medical marijuana patient or caregiver can grow the plants and the warrant was incomplete when it was issued.

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