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  • (Ohio:)Officers swarm 'marijuana megafarms' with suspected ties to Mexican drug cartels

    09/22/2010 9:52:25 AM PDT · by SwinneySwitch · 16 replies
    THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH ^ | September 22, 2010 | Randy Ludlow
    BUSTED Columbus man, 10 others arrested; 2,500 pot plants seized The pot-picking has been plentiful for authorities across Ohio this summer, but they had failed to find the men tending the lucrative cash crop. That changed Monday when more than two dozen officers from federal, state and local agencies surrounded woods in the river bottoms of Muskingum County as a marijuana work crew went about its business. Chasing some of the men as they fled along the Muskingum River, authorities arrested 10 Mexican nationals and charged them with conspiracy to cultivate marijuana in two carefully tended fields about 90 miles...