By Stan Donaldson
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Photos By: Joshua Gunter/The Plain Dealer

CLEVELAND — Cleveland police announced Tuesday that they made the largest drug bust in the city's history and recovered more than 3,000 pounds of marijuana from a tractor-trailer.

Police arrested eight men, two from suburban Cleveland, on suspicion of drug trafficking. The other six are believed to be from a Mexican gang on the West Coast, police Lt. Thomas Stacho said.

That arrest led them to a trailer Sunday in the 19700 block of South Miles Road in Warrensville Heights. It held packages of dry soup and bales of pot with an estimated street value of $3 million.

Besides marijuana, police seized $386,000 in cash, seven firearms and eight vehicles. Police in Highland Heights and Warrensville Heights assisted Cleveland narcotics officers, who worked under a grant through the Domestic Highway Enforcement program.

The bust is the largest in the city's history, said Police Chief Ned McGrath. Along with law enforcement, the city must address the demand for drugs through social service, drug treatment programs and job opportunities for teens, he said.

Hendrix Estate Wins Judgement for $3.2 Million for Trademark Infringement

We all know that there are many people/"companies" in the ent./music business, that just throw logos around on fliers, magazines, & on the Internet with NO legal right. Right? Well, 2one6 is here to enlighten those in an effort to what could happen when you Illegal use a name, & or trademark which can cause some serious legal issues without written consent.

Seattle businessman Craig Dieffenbach and his Electric Hendrix LLC promoted a vodka named "Hendrix Electric" after a legend rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix, which claimed the spirit infringed on the Hendrix trademark. Experience Hendrix, the company that controls the trademark won a judgement of $3.2 million dollars and has ordered Dieffenbach and his companies to stop selling and marketing the vodka or any other products branded with the Hendrix name.

"This judgment recognizes our family's long-standing commitment to preserve the Jimi Hendrix legacy and artistic vision," Jimi's stepsister, Janie Hendrix, said in a written statement.

The Hendrix estate believes that Jimi's name or image should not be used to promote alcohol due to Hendrix's death by a sleeping pill overdose in 1970, at age 27. Experience Hendrix does market a wide variety of Hendrix-themed promotional items.

In late 2005, Dieffenbach began marketing the vodka in purple-tinted bottles with a Jimi Hendrix likeness and signature above the label. The estate sued him in 2007.