N.C. Police Find Large Marijuana Farm
Posted on: Friday, 13 June 2008, 00:00 CDT
Police in North Carolina say a marijuana farm discovered Tuesday was a professional operation with 35,000 plants and an irrigation system.
Harnett County Sheriff Larry Rollins told the Fayetteville Observer the plants had a potential street value of $84 million.
I've never seen one set up like this before, Rollins said Wednesday. It's a farming operation.
The farm was discovered by officers surveying the area from a helicopter. The marijuana was being grown on 10 acres where timber had been cut.
The operation included two huts for caretakers and pools by each plot to mix fertilizer and pesticides.
There was a creek nearby where they had 700 (feet) to 800 feet of garden hoses running through the woods to the plots with small pumps to irrigate, Rollins said.
Rollins told WRAL-TV in Raleigh Thursday the owner of the land apparently did not know of the marijuana operation. Investigators were still searching for the growers.
Source: United Press International
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