Politics & Government

Feds Move To Seize Campellone House

The Providence Journal reports the U.S. Attorney filed the complaint Thursday.


The U.S. Attorney's office filed a complaint in federal court Thursday to seize the house belonging to Robert E. Campellone, the Providence Journal reported. He was arrested last month on charges that he and his two sons were running a large-scale marijuana operation out of the house at 236 Adirondack Drive.

On the morning of June 8, the East Greenwich police and agents from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration raided the house and seized more than $30,000 and six pounds of marijuana.

They arrested Campellone, 58, and his two sons, Robert B. Campellone, 23, and Kyle C. Campellone, 22, on charges of cultivating marijuana and possessing 1 to 5 kilos of the drug with intent to deliver. The elder Campellone was also charged with maintaining a narcotics nuisance.

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The three Campellones were released on bail June 18. One condition of the bail was that none of them are allowed back to East Greenwich – either their house or the town. Kyle Campellone was ordered to an inpatient drug treatment facility in Oklahoma.

Town officials, meanwhile, had condemned the house just hours after the raid, citing electrical problems in particular that made the house uninhabitable. Since that time, Sharin Campellone - wife and mother to the accused – has had work done on the house.

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