Over $4 million in marijuana seized by lawmen in cotton field in Tarrytown

The Courier Herald ^ | 08/29/03 | Jonathon Finley

[yonif]

MT. VERNON - Over $4 million in marijuana was seized by law enforcement officials Aug. 26 near a cotton field in Tarrytown.

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office and the Oconee Drug Task Force found the marijuana located near a vacant home at J. E. Willis Rd.

According to officials, they received a call from a concerned resident who tipped them off to the growing marijuana. Plants were found around the outside of the vacant residence, scattered through the roadside ditch and concentrated on the outskirts of the field and receding into the woods. Another large concentration of marijuana was discovered across the road in a field.

“I didn’t know it was going to be like this,” Montgomery Sheriff Clarance Sanders said. “I thought it was going to be a few plants.”

The few plants numbered into the thousands. Officials counted over 4,400 plants from the area.

Members of the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, along with the help of county workers, pulled plants out of the field that were as small as two inches and as big as nine and a half feet tall.

Montgomery County has had other marijuana plants found by authorities in the past, but nothing that turned out to be as large a find as this one, authorities said.

No arrests have been made, but the investigation is ongoing.

[MrLeRoy]

Some plants were 2 inches tall? Thank goodness no one was hurt! Sounds like this is just growing wild - funny to think of the Barney Fifes getting all worked up about it.

The War On Some Drugs is built on lies.

[jmc813]

WOD Ping

[dead]

When they haul in plants, they weigh the leaves, the stems, the roots (without shaking off any dirt) and they lean their thumbs on the scale.

The bigger the haul, the cooler the high-tech gizmos they can persuade the tax-payers to buy them.

With the these gizmos, they can confiscate more Trans-Ams to tool around the neighborhood in, trying to look cool.

[MrLeRoy]

WODdies need all the PE they can steal.

[KCmark]

1 elbow is $800 - $1000. But since this is ditchweed, it is worth nothing.

[sweet_diane]

"(My friend's mother was the County Clerk of Court, and was politically connected....)"

Lucky for her. Had she not had those connections I would imagine they would have seized all her property, regardless of whom she had let farm it.

[bc2]

your math is pretty good

4400 plants x 4 ounces each (5 or 8 is a large estimate) = 17600 oz

16 oz in 1 lb = 1100 lbs (17600 / 16 = 1100)

$300 per ounce, but at that weight it's $4000 per lb so: 1100 * $4000 = $4.4 million

And some wonder why others take the risk in growing.

legalize weed and create a new North American industry similar to the new micro-brewing boom. The American government can never stop peaceful people from enjoying liberty and prosperity.