County Marijuana Bust
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County man is arrested and charged with growing marijuana.
As Channel xxxx xxxxx reports, the suspect's decision to develop pictures at a local drug store, ultimately led to his arrest and the end of his growing operation.
"He had numerous plants in different growing phases, he had finished products of marijuana. He had very elaborate grow cabinets that are quite expensive, all the chemicals and pretty much everything needed to produce marijuana indoors."
And that's exactly what authorities say 37-year old xxxxx was doing inside his xxxxx home.
xxxx was arrested Tuesday after he had pictures of his marijuana plants developed at a local drug store.
Someone at the store alerted authorities.
"It's something that we're not gonna tolerate in the county and it's obviously something important to him that he was proud enough to take photographs of and he was proud of his product and fortunately for us he was caught."
xxxxxxx is a friend of the suspect.
He says xxxxx is not a drug dealer... And he doesn't consider him a criminal.
xxxxx "He was growing hydroponics marijuana for himself himself, you know, not to sell or anything to anybody else. He just done it for his own medical purposes."
xxxxxx told us he suffers from a bleeding ulcer and he says marijuana eases his symptoms.
Moving marijuana growing operations inside is nothing new in xxxxxx County.
It's a trend Sergeant pig says he's seen for some time.
[leo; "A lot of people do move their grow operations inside. They know that we fly with an airplane. They know that people can see it outside, so they'll move it inside."
xxx was released on bond Wednesday afternoon.
Send us your comments about news stories.
County man is arrested and charged with growing marijuana.
As Channel xxxx xxxxx reports, the suspect's decision to develop pictures at a local drug store, ultimately led to his arrest and the end of his growing operation.
"He had numerous plants in different growing phases, he had finished products of marijuana. He had very elaborate grow cabinets that are quite expensive, all the chemicals and pretty much everything needed to produce marijuana indoors."
And that's exactly what authorities say 37-year old xxxxx was doing inside his xxxxx home.
xxxx was arrested Tuesday after he had pictures of his marijuana plants developed at a local drug store.
Someone at the store alerted authorities.
"It's something that we're not gonna tolerate in the county and it's obviously something important to him that he was proud enough to take photographs of and he was proud of his product and fortunately for us he was caught."
xxxxxxx is a friend of the suspect.
He says xxxxx is not a drug dealer... And he doesn't consider him a criminal.
xxxxx "He was growing hydroponics marijuana for himself himself, you know, not to sell or anything to anybody else. He just done it for his own medical purposes."
xxxxxx told us he suffers from a bleeding ulcer and he says marijuana eases his symptoms.
Moving marijuana growing operations inside is nothing new in xxxxxx County.
It's a trend Sergeant pig says he's seen for some time.
[leo; "A lot of people do move their grow operations inside. They know that we fly with an airplane. They know that people can see it outside, so they'll move it inside."
xxx was released on bond Wednesday afternoon.
