15 miles from home!

[poorman3]

Pot Seizure Called Countyâ??s Largest

BY deleted: Staff Writer

Authorities Wednesday made what is believed to be the largest single marijuana seizure in the history of the county.

Officers located a field with 5,404 marijuana plants in a wooded area behind New Century Middle School off N.C. 24-27. Twenty other plants were found in different parts of the county.

The street value of all of the marijuana seized is $5.4 million. The formula officers use to come up with that figure is simple: Each plant, no matter how large or small, is valued at $1,000.

According to Sheriff Lane Carter, the large marijuana field was well tended and had a makeshift camp located in it. The field was among several hundred acres of woods, Carter said, rather far from the school for anyone walking.

Officers from the Sheriffâ??s Department, the State Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Army National Guard and the State Highway Patrol contributed to the investigation.

National Guard and Highway Patrol helicopters helped spot the field from the air. About 12 sheriffâ??s deputies from the narcotics unit and the investigations office and three SBI agents moved in from the ground.

The operation was part of a continuing effort to eradicate marijuana farming in rural Moore County.

â??We do it several times a year,â?� Carter said.

Usually, deputies seize between 500 and 600 plants a year.

Any rural and wooded area is subject to marijuana farming, Carter said. Marijuana farmers like to use fields that have recently been cut for lumber and replanted with immature pines. The canopy helps hide the cannabis plants from overhead investigators.

Last year, deputies found a field that included more than 1,000 plants.

Carter said that this discovery is the largest heâ??s seen, and heâ??s been with the Sheriffâ??s Department for 28 years.

â??Weâ??ve seized thousands before,â?� he said, â??but this is the largest single seizure.â?�

Sheriffâ??s deputies stayed on the scene for most of the day, destroying all the plants.

No charges have been filed in the case. In marijuana busts like this, itâ??s often difficult for officers to make an arrest unless they come upon someone on the scene. Investigators can check the land records, but officers say marijuana farmers rarely use their own land.

Bad day in the neighborhood!

poorman3 Reviewed by poorman3 on 07-15-2005. 15 miles from home! Pot Seizure Called Countyâ??s Largest BY deleted: Staff Writer Authorities Wednesday made what is believed to be the largest single marijuana seizure in the history of the county. Officers located a field with 5,404 marijuana plants in a wooded area behind New Century Middle School off N.C. 24-27. Twenty other plants were found in different parts of the county. The street value of all of the marijuana seized is $5.4 million. The formula officers use to come up with that figure is Rating: 5

[Hektik]

lol damn. thats a lot of plants. id smoke em all

[potheaduk]

oh my gosh how gutted you must be kicking yourself for not finding it first

[sir smokes alot]

what state was that in?

[Budking]

It fu*cking pisses me off how the cops find it and act like they just solved a huge crime or something. It's f*cking stupid how a natural plant makes this much news and is looked upon as being so bad. I hate America

[GHoSToKeR]

I agree, BudKing. Why is this something to be proud of? A waste of fucking time, money and effort.

[burnitup]

Absolutely right budking, damn cops destroying such beautiful plants. Such a sad sad thing

[NowhereMan]

It fu*cking pisses me off how the cops find it and act like they just solved a huge crime or something. It's f*cking stupid how a natural plant makes this much news and is looked upon as being so bad. I hate America

YOU mean American DRUG LAWS dont ya

dam poorman,bet you kinda wonder what if you had a some nearby huh,
you know they are looking SOOOOOOOOOOO hard

fuck the law
and their wives husbands and parents
they need to ignore a bad fucking law

[ermitonto]

Yeah, it's really stupid how the government supports programs to save endangered species and then tries to render other species extinct like this.

But it doesn't matter anyways, they can't get rid of weed. They can't even put a dent in the weed business, even when they do multiple giant busts. The plant is everywhere, business as usual will recover very quickly, and there's not a damn thing they can do about it.