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Police find $5 million pot cache
Grand Prairie is a fairly typical suburb. One would think this would have been spotted somewhat quickly.
I'm not even going to get into the taxes that might have been.
Read it to the end, because it ends, well to me it's funny.
I'm not even going to get into the taxes that might have been.
Read it to the end, because it ends, well to me it's funny.
10:50 AM CDT on Sunday, July 22, 2007
By DAN RONAN / WFAA-TV
It's being called the largest marijuana find in Dallas' history - a huge cache of pot growing in an open field near the Grand Prairie-Dallas border.
The estimated price tag of the drugs is $5 million.
Police say it all began with a single call to Grand Prairie officers.
When Drug Enforcement Administration agents flew a helicopter over the sight, they were amazed at what they found.
There are about 10,500 plants.
"All the plants have been pulled, we're just waiting to get in there and start bringing them out," said James Capra, a DEA specialist.
The property belongs to Oncor Electric.
The utility is cooperating with police.
The DEA says this was a pretty sophisticated operation and the people who were cultivating the field apparently did not want to attract too much attention but they wanted the plants to be well cared for.
"We have lines that go in for water, for irrigation. We have some sort of a campsites back there. Obviously some trash, we see some trash and other things. But right now, no one in custody. But we do have some leads," Capra said.
Police say the growers were professionals.
"They maintained the canopy. In other words they really tried hard to disguise the area where they were growing without ruining the sunlight coming in that feeds the plants," Capra added.
It's not clear how long the field has been used to grow marijuana but it will be destroyed.
Most marijuana sold in north Texas comes from Mexico - it's not homegrown.
Officials say cultivating it here may be the start of a trend.
"Typically what we see in this business is the use of public lands, lands owned by business, that are kind of remote," Capra said.
This find is also much larger than the one earlier this summer, when authorities found more than 200 plants, growing near the DEA's Dallas headquarters.
By DAN RONAN / WFAA-TV
It's being called the largest marijuana find in Dallas' history - a huge cache of pot growing in an open field near the Grand Prairie-Dallas border.
The estimated price tag of the drugs is $5 million.
Police say it all began with a single call to Grand Prairie officers.
When Drug Enforcement Administration agents flew a helicopter over the sight, they were amazed at what they found.
There are about 10,500 plants.
"All the plants have been pulled, we're just waiting to get in there and start bringing them out," said James Capra, a DEA specialist.
The property belongs to Oncor Electric.
The utility is cooperating with police.
The DEA says this was a pretty sophisticated operation and the people who were cultivating the field apparently did not want to attract too much attention but they wanted the plants to be well cared for.
"We have lines that go in for water, for irrigation. We have some sort of a campsites back there. Obviously some trash, we see some trash and other things. But right now, no one in custody. But we do have some leads," Capra said.
Police say the growers were professionals.
"They maintained the canopy. In other words they really tried hard to disguise the area where they were growing without ruining the sunlight coming in that feeds the plants," Capra added.
It's not clear how long the field has been used to grow marijuana but it will be destroyed.
Most marijuana sold in north Texas comes from Mexico - it's not homegrown.
Officials say cultivating it here may be the start of a trend.
"Typically what we see in this business is the use of public lands, lands owned by business, that are kind of remote," Capra said.
This find is also much larger than the one earlier this summer, when authorities found more than 200 plants, growing near the DEA's Dallas headquarters.
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