Investigators Confiscate 1,200 Marijuana Plants
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Posted: 12:01 PM Sep 3, 2008
 Last Updated: 12:01 PM Sep 3, 2008
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PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (WSAZ) -- Scioto County Sheriff Deputies, along with agents from the Bureau of Criminal Identification and the Highway Patrol, have seized 1,200 marijuana plants.

The plants were found Tuesday in the area of Careys Run Pond Creek Road.

The sheriff says, if harvested and sold, the marijuana plants would have a street value of approximately $1,000,000.

Anyone with drug information on drug activity in their neighborhood should contact the Scioto County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Unit at (740) 351-1094.

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Posted by: Angie2 on Sep 5, 2008 at 05:16 AM
To "jack," kids these days do have money to buy drugs. These thug kids these days want these drugs so bad they rob and steal off people and sell their stolen goods to other people for money, therefore, they don't need a job to have money to buy drugs. They steal money of of parents and loved ones. Wake up Jack and smell the coffee, if these kids want money for drugs they'll get it one way or another. You might be their victim next.
Posted by: Your friend on Sep 4, 2008 at 11:05 AM
Years back i was approached by a police officer that i knew he wanted me to plant some,he said that a big bust would help his career,today that man is know a detective,true story.
Posted by: jack on Sep 4, 2008 at 10:08 AM
"Kids" don't have money to buy drugs. They don't have jobs.
Posted by: bob on Sep 4, 2008 at 09:24 AM
with the cost of fuel it seems like they would sit in there cars in various locations of portsmouth(east end-the ville)and bust the real drug dealers.we all know the crack and oxy dealers around here and so does the local law dogs.instaed they joy ride around in a helecopter looking for pot. maybe they are selling 1/2 of what they find.i would not be suprised knowing how corrupt our local law dogs are.by the way,if you have 1200 plants and 900 of them are males then the value dramaticaly decreases.the local dea-hahaha-trys to make themselves look good by giving false amounts on what something is worth.maybe thats what they would charge on the streets.anyway i vote to quit wasting tax dollars on helecopters and atv's,give the portsmouth police and sherrif's department bicycles to drive around portsmouth.three things would happen here.we would save tax dollars,the law would find "real drugs" and the officers would lose some weight.
Posted by: Angie on Sep 4, 2008 at 06:40 AM
Who gives a crap. Get the meth heads and the AIDS carrying prostitutes and the "East End Mafia" off the street who cause a bunch of crap every single day. I'm so sick of the tax payers money going towards seizing marijuana plants, especially when they don't even know who is growing it, get real! Pot doesn't even seem like a hard drug anymore compared to the OxyContin and meth and crack and everything else we have on the street, not to mention the low lives that are doing and distributing it all. The law enforcement in this area just like the easy jobs and everybody knows it, like seizing 1200 pot plants that they say they don't know who the owner is. This way they avoid confrontation with an actual person and don't have to deal with an actual dealer or addict to arrest. Way to go Scioto County again for getting another deadbeat dealer off the street. What a joke! Portsmouth is where all the action is but where they seem to avoid - for some reason. Must be AFRAID!
Posted by: hey ralph on Sep 3, 2008 at 10:51 PM
man really think about it, they have good job's they have to care for the precious herbs baby them nurish them, sounds to me like a great green thumb! don't-cha-think? I could not imagine 1200 plants I have a really though time just getting good red bell pepper plants to grow well and that is just three! haha everyone take a nap this is not news
Posted by: ralph on Sep 3, 2008 at 10:13 PM
they need to keep pot off the streets away from our kids i think someone should stand accountable for it scioto county need to be clean outdrug growers maybe should get a job they need to be caught
Posted by: ralph on Sep 3, 2008 at 10:08 PM
the pot is always found in same area and they arrest no one wonder how that got there the drug dealers living better than people who work the cops just keep busting same pot places but no one is arrested just look who has everything and no job
Posted by: sowhat on Sep 3, 2008 at 09:33 PM
I guess people will take money to other towns and buy pot. Kids won't get new shoes. Drive the same ole ATVs. Start drinking...cut their own firewood...sell harder drugs...eat low on the hog...quit getting the munchies and spending $300.00 on junk food at 7-11...go to jail and live off taxpayers...go on welfare...find a new girlfriend that hates pot...find a new growing location...and just might have to go to work God forbid.
Posted by: ralph on Sep 3, 2008 at 07:10 PM
is any one going to be charged in this they r finding it who did it belong to seems like to me a few years back plants were taken from this are or close by but no one was charged wonder why
Posted by: Willie on Sep 3, 2008 at 05:31 PM
Anyone got a light.
Posted by: rick on Sep 3, 2008 at 03:30 PM
Not again! What a waste of tax revenue. We pay people to capture plants. What skill.
Posted by: tiffnay on Sep 3, 2008 at 01:58 PM
keep busting them and make sure you watch the kids just as well as the adults. both are bad for habing pot.
Posted by: Anonymous on Sep 3, 2008 at 01:26 PM
IF THE GOVERMENT WOULD TAX IT AND LEGALIZE IT YOU'D NEVER HEAR SUCH THINGS. WE CAN LET DRUNKS HAVE THEIR ALCOHOL AND HURT AND POSSIBLY KILL INNOCENT ONES BUT THE GOV CAN'T LET THIS BE LEGAL. AND IT DONT CAUSE ANY PROBS.
Posted by: tiffany on Sep 3, 2008 at 01:05 PM
idiots. haha.=>
Posted by: kayla moore on Sep 3, 2008 at 01:04 PM
WOW
Posted by: Kelly on Sep 3, 2008 at 12:29 PM
THIS JUST IN.......... MARIJUANA IS NOT A DRUG, WILL NEVER BE A DRUG AND HAS NEVER BEEN A DRUG!! ALTHOUGH METH, CRACK, COKE, HERION, AND PERSCRIPTION DRUGS ARE RUNNING RAMPED IN OUR TOWN AND YES THESE ARE DRUGS AND THEY MAY ACTUALY HAVE A STREET VALUE OF 1,000,000.00!! THIS HAS BEEN A NEWS BULLETIN FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!!
Posted by: Before the freaks get started on Sep 3, 2008 at 12:22 PM
We know...we know.... The law enforcement officers are either selling it themselves or they're all using it. AND...Pot should be legalized...It's one of God's herbs...It's natural...Nobody hurts anybody when they smoke pot..It's not addicting...It's not a 'gateway drug'...on and on and on and on and on... That should about cover it, so I saved you guys a bunch of time didn't I? So go have another bag of Fritos.
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