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On Tuesday September 9, 2003 the Oglethorpe County Sheriff Office, Georgia State Patrol Helicopter Unit, Department of Natural Resources, the Piedmonts M.A.N.S. Unit and the DEA discovered and destroyed 1299 marijuana plants found growing in Oglethorpe County.

Fairground Road

The Governors Drug Task Force Unit GSP Helicopter Pilots first spotted marijuana from the sky at 203 Fairground Road. The estimated street value of the marijuana discovered was $4,000.00. Kevin Woodson was arrested and charged for unlawful to possess, sale, distribute marijuana.

$2,576,000 of Marijuana Seized in the Sandy Cross Community - Largest Crop of the Day

The Georgia State Patrol Helicopter Units on Sandy Cross Road spotted approximately 1286 marijuana plants from the air. The land that the marijuana was seized from is occupied or owned by a paper company. The plants varied from 12 to 18 ft feet tall with buds anywhere from 6 to 18 inches long.

Chief Deputy Bill Fincher and Agent Andy Myers told Oglethorpe County News Online that this was some of the best-grown marijuana that they have ever seen. Arrests should be following pending further investigations.

Memory Meadows Personal Home Care Center - Shady Oaks Lane

As Oglethorpe County Sheriff Deputies, DNR, GBI, DEA, and Piedmonts MANS Unit were finishing hauling marijuana out of the Sandy Cross Community, the Georgia State Patrol Helicopter Units notified Agents that they had found marijuana on Shady Oaks Lane.

The Georgia State Patrol Pilots made an emergency landing on the property to detain Brenda Buck in a nearby area of the marijuana.

As units were entering the location at 146 Shady Oaks Lane there was actually a small group of people on the side of the road, cheering and clapping with thumbs up as the Agents were entering the property. This group of people seemed proud to see the helicopters as well as the Multi-drug task force units coming in.

Marijuana was found growing on the property as well as marijuana hanging in a building drying out. An estimated weight on the buds of the marijuana plants found growing and drying out was around 30 lbs. according to agents on the scene.

Investigator David Wortham found a box full of pipes, bongs and other paraphernalia on the premises.

Warrants were obtained by the Piedmont MANS Unit to search Memory Memorial Personal Home Care Center owned by Brenda and Bruce Buck. 29 guns were seized; evidence of drug residue, seeds and signs of drug usage was discovered during the search. The guns serial numbers was run on the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) computer with several coming back as stolen in the mid 1980's.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigations Health Care Fraud Unit and DFAC was notified and an investigation of Memory Meadows Personal Home Care Center will be investigated by each agency. According to Chief Deputy Bill Fincher, approximately six people are currently under the care of Memory Meadows Personal Home Care Center.

Arrested on scene were Brenda and Bruce Buck at 146 Shady Oaks Lane charged with unlawful to possess, sell, distribute marijuana and possession of firearms during the commission of a crime. Also arrested in this incident was Eric Buck of 154 Shady Oak Lane after admitting that two of the marijuana plants were his, he was arrested and charged with unlawful to possess, sell, distribute marijuana and possession of firearms during the commission of a crime.

Eric Buck gave consent to the Oglethorpe County Sheriff's Office and the Piedmonts MANS Unit to search his resident at 154 Shady Oak Lane shortly after midnight. Found inside the resident was a growth generator used to start cloning plants.

The marijuana that was seized on Tuesday was taken to a location on Wolfskin Road and burned. The Piedmonts MANS Unit, Chief Deputy Bill Fincher, Sheriff Deputies, Volunteers and a Crwaford Fire Fighter was present during the burning of the marijuan plants as well as the owners of the property where the marijuana was burned.