Pot Bust Nets 30,000 Plants
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
State, federal and local officials rounded up
an estimated 30,000 marijuana plants in a ten-week effort
across the state.
This week, the raids have focused on southeast Arkansas.
Six-thousand marijuana plants were seized in Lincoln and Jefferson
counties.
Police used six aircraft to find marijuana plants growing in
fields. The search was aided by the Arkansas National Guard, which
provided tanker trucks to refuel helicopters and Army Humvees to
allow the searchers to reach isolated areas. Sheriff`s deputies
also brought four-wheelers and all-terrain vehicles.
The effort is reaching each of the state`s 75 counties. In all,
30-thousand marijuana plants have been located and destroyed.
Grant, Jefferson and Lincoln counties were the targets this
week. Figures weren`t available from the Grant County raid.
