595 plants seized from a home.

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Published January 04, 2008 09:05 pm - Local authorities and the Drug Enforcement Administration are investigating a case where 595 marijuana plants were found at a Kaufer Lane residence Thursday.

 

595 marijuana plants removed from New Albany home

 

By STEPHANIE MOJICA http://www.news-tribune.net/news/local_story_004210538.html

Stephanie.Mojica@newsandtribune.com

 

Local authorities and the Drug Enforcement Administration are investigating a case where 595 marijuana plants were found at a Kaufer Lane residence Thursday.

 

Floyd County Sheriff’s Department deputies responded to a break-in report Thursday, said Sheriff Darrell Mills in a telephone interview Friday. When officers arrived, they saw a broken window and an open door at the residence located at 226 Kaufer Lane. Two trays of marijuana plants, which apparently had been dropped, were spotted outside the house, Mills said.

 

After securing a search warrant, authorities went inside the home and found a total of 595 plants, Mills said. The homeowner is on vacation in Florida, and because he has not been arrested Mills declined to release his name. Mills said Floyd County Prosecutor Keith Henderson will likely charge the homeowner next week in connection with the plants.

 

“It is clear the burglars wanted to steal the marijuana,” Mills said. “We are working both the burglary and the drug cases.”

 

Mills said he hopes when the homeowner returns to town, that he will cooperate with authorities in locating the people who broke into his home.

 

“If these folks had not broken into his house, we would likely have never known about the marijuana plants in the house,” Mills said. “Because we do so many helicopter flyovers, more and more people are moving their plants inside.”

 

DEA agents are handling writing the probable-cause affidavit which would then be turned over to Henderson for indicting the homeowner on drug charges, Mills said.

 

“We consider marijuana to be as much of a problem as any other drug or controlled substance, and we’ll continue to aggressively pursue drug enforcement with all of the resources at our disposal,” Henderson said.

[Token Jet]

Poor bastard. You would be extra pissed at the guys who robbed ya

[Pam]

I know EXACTLY how this poor bastard feels

[G_M]

That's a lot of pot.