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Marijuana farm found in Grayson County
BY MARY JANE FARMER
HERALD DEMOCRAT
Investigators from the Grayson County Sheriff's Office and Texas Department of Public Safety destroyed 100 six-foot tall marijuana plants discovered in northwest Grayson County Tuesday through a DPS helicopter flyover.
Sheriff's Office Sgt. Rickey Wheeler said that the plants were well hidden off roadways, concealed partially from overhead by trees and from the ground by undergrowth, or vines and shrubs, and the area's rugged terrain. From the air, the investigators first spotted several newly-dug holes in the ground, and after investigating those, they found that someone had dug 100 holes as if for a new marijuana crop planting. Then, they found several clusters of marijuana plants, growing in groups of 5, or 10, or 20 plants, depending on the availability of natural foliage to camouflage them.
Wheeler said the marijuana had been well cared for, including the use of "an elaborate irrigation system set up to maintain a constant water flow to the plants as needed." The investigators traced the water source back to a home. They conducted a search and, Wheeler said, found grow lights, fertilizer, more of the same watering system components, potting soil, more marijuana plants, and instructional material on how to grow marijuana.
Investigators dug the marijuana plants up; destroyed the irrigation system; took evidence from the home; photographed the scene; packaged the marijuana plants, which are being taken to a DPS lab for analysis.
"Each marijuana plant can typically produce between one and two pounds of marijuana," Wheeler said. Describing a maximum yield, he added, "This type of marijuana could be sold for about $400 per pound. In this particular case, had the suspect harvested two pounds of marijuana per plant, he could have made approximately $80,000 from this marijuana grow.
Investigators have identified a suspect who, Wheeler said, will be questioned and possibly charged. This suspect and this marijuana field is not believed to have been connected with any major marijuana cartel, he added, but said that investigators are seeing an "increasingly large number of sophisticated marijuana grows across North Texas this year. This is largely in part to cartels from countries to the south.
"Cartels are moving into North Texas for the purpose of growing marijuana for profit." Wheeler said that investigators in Cooke County recently uncovered a marijuana field containing about 4,000 large plants.
About two weeks ago, the Sheriff's Office investigators found destroyed many 6-foot marijuana plants growing in an enclosed residential deck, also in northwest Grayson County.
Marijuana farm found in Grayson County
BY MARY JANE FARMER
HERALD DEMOCRAT
Investigators from the Grayson County Sheriff's Office and Texas Department of Public Safety destroyed 100 six-foot tall marijuana plants discovered in northwest Grayson County Tuesday through a DPS helicopter flyover.
Sheriff's Office Sgt. Rickey Wheeler said that the plants were well hidden off roadways, concealed partially from overhead by trees and from the ground by undergrowth, or vines and shrubs, and the area's rugged terrain. From the air, the investigators first spotted several newly-dug holes in the ground, and after investigating those, they found that someone had dug 100 holes as if for a new marijuana crop planting. Then, they found several clusters of marijuana plants, growing in groups of 5, or 10, or 20 plants, depending on the availability of natural foliage to camouflage them.
Wheeler said the marijuana had been well cared for, including the use of "an elaborate irrigation system set up to maintain a constant water flow to the plants as needed." The investigators traced the water source back to a home. They conducted a search and, Wheeler said, found grow lights, fertilizer, more of the same watering system components, potting soil, more marijuana plants, and instructional material on how to grow marijuana.
Investigators dug the marijuana plants up; destroyed the irrigation system; took evidence from the home; photographed the scene; packaged the marijuana plants, which are being taken to a DPS lab for analysis.
"Each marijuana plant can typically produce between one and two pounds of marijuana," Wheeler said. Describing a maximum yield, he added, "This type of marijuana could be sold for about $400 per pound. In this particular case, had the suspect harvested two pounds of marijuana per plant, he could have made approximately $80,000 from this marijuana grow.
Investigators have identified a suspect who, Wheeler said, will be questioned and possibly charged. This suspect and this marijuana field is not believed to have been connected with any major marijuana cartel, he added, but said that investigators are seeing an "increasingly large number of sophisticated marijuana grows across North Texas this year. This is largely in part to cartels from countries to the south.
"Cartels are moving into North Texas for the purpose of growing marijuana for profit." Wheeler said that investigators in Cooke County recently uncovered a marijuana field containing about 4,000 large plants.
About two weeks ago, the Sheriff's Office investigators found destroyed many 6-foot marijuana plants growing in an enclosed residential deck, also in northwest Grayson County.
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According to the comments that's her real name.
She can retire now that her life's ambition has been realized.
Or maybe she can't, now that they found her crop.