Ohio Ag Dept. & State’s Top Cop Sued For Food Co-Op Raid

Sarah Foster
1/7/2009

It’s been over a month since a team of 10, heavily armed sheriff deputies, at the behest of county and state agencies, conducted an aggressive mid-day, search-and-seize raid of the home of John and Jacqueline Stowers, owners of an organic food co-op called Manna Storehouse in LaGrange, Ohio — and tore their world apart.

The couple has not yet been charged with a crime, but they don’t have to wait to become defendants in a trial — they’re the plaintiffs in a court action launched by two advocacy groups on their behalf.

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