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Marijuana Haul Valued at $1 Million!
Posted by FoM on July 08, 1999 at 13:01:07 PT
Source: Excite News
PHILLIPS, Maine,In the rugged wooden hills of Phillips, Maine, west of Bangor, police have located a cache of marijuana plants with a street value of more than $1 million.
It took 20 officers some in a Civil Air Patrol helicopter and others on the ground to round up the cache. The harvest yielded some 770 plants, some as tall as 7 feet. Police estimate the plants would have matured sometime next month with each yielding up to a pound of marijuana. Police Lt. Jack Peck from nearby Farmington and a former agent with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency was among those working on the day- long operation. Peck said, "It seemed we were way out in the middle of nowhere." The officers were directed by radio through the swamps and underbrush by those on the lookout in the helicopter. While some plants were growing less than 100 feet from the road, other plants were spotted far into the swampy area with no apparent trail to guide those tending the plants. In the biggest site, which contained some 100 plants, the officers uncovered potting soil, an indication the plants had been carefully nurtured as seeds in the homes of some Mainers. Two heavily laden pickup trucks carted away the booty late Wednesday to a state warehouse in Windham. The police plan to burn all 770 plants in an incinerator. The next step is to locate the growers. Updated 9:21 AM ET July 8, 1999
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