Pot find was second in two months
More than 600 marijuana plants were taken out of the public hunting grounds today near Turtle Creek, just northeast of the intersection of Creek Road and Highway 14 in Darien Township.
The growing operation was discovered Saturday by two deer hunters, said Sgt. Jeff Patek of the Walworth County Drug Unit.
One of the hunters found another large growing operation in the same public hunting grounds earlier in September, Patek said. Authorities recovered about 1,000 plants from that find.
The latest find was a several hundred yards away from the first site, through thick underbrush and marshy areas.
Each of the plants was about 10 to 15 feet tall and was ready for cultivating, Patek said.
Each plant has about a half-pound of saleable marijuana on it, Patek said.
Marijuana sells on the street for about $3,000 to $4,000 per pound. Cut into smaller amounts, it can sell for about $300 per ounce, or $4,800 per pound.
Estimating about 800 pounds of saleable drugs from the two finds, the street value of the marijuana is between $2.8 million and $3.8 million.
Police are still investigating who was growing the marijuana.
Oct 26, 2007 at 7:17 a.m.
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Just reading this article gave me the munchies.
Oct 25, 2007 at 7:35 p.m.
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Hypocrites? The plant is illegal. What is there to dispute about that? It is known that along with the consumption, selling, growing of marijuana comes violence and other associated events that would lead to arrests. So "taxpayer" dollars are going towards the prevention of violence. Well spent might I add.
Oct 25, 2007 at 5:57 p.m.
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what a crock. there they are spending our taxpayers money to irradicate a freakin WEED. a harmless weed at that. a PROVEN medicinal weed. stop the lies and legalize. google marijuana benefits and then google marijauna negative effects. youll see what im talkin about. 1 person dies EVERY second in the u.s. from either alcohol or tobacco, no one has EVER DIED FROM MARIJUANA, but lets makes sure we keep marijuana illegal. hypocrites.
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