I cant believe this

ShelbyGuy

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my bad, it was tennessee
http://www.newschannel5.com/content/news/16227.asp


HARTSVILLE, Tenn. — Investigators from the 15th Judicial District Drug Task Force found a mother lode of marijuana in the unlikeliest of places — a cave.

Beneath a stylish A-frame home on Dixon Springs Road in eastern Trousdale County, three men allegedly set up a sophisticated operation to grow as much as 100 pounds of marijuana every eight weeks.

"It's pretty amazing what they had under there — water for irrigation, special lighting, devices to keep the humidity just right. These guys were professionals. They knew what they were doing," said District Attorney General Tommy Thompson of Hartsville.

"They could grow in 60 days what it would take four and a half months to grow outside."

Arrested on Wednesday were Brian Gibson and Greg Compton, while a third man, Fred Strunk, was arrested near Gainesville, Fla. All three are in jail, with Gibson and Compton being held in the Trousdale County Jail. Bail was set for Gibson and Compton at $5 million, while Strunk's was set at $15 million, Thompson said. Local authorities were in Florida yesterday to return Strunk to Tennessee.

According to the district attorney general, the investigation into the operation began about five years ago when a home was built above the cave, but it never appeared anyone lived there.

"The front of the cave used to be a hole that you'd crawl into, and it opened up into a pretty big room that was 20-feet high. They cut the side of the hill so you could just drive right into the cave,'' Thompson said.

The cave, reached from the house via secret entrances, is said to be about two miles long, but the marijuana operation was located about 100 yards inside. Thompson said the other end of the cave had been blocked to keep trespassers out.

According to the prosecutor, the men told locals they were going to be mining statuary rock.

In another suspicious incident, the local electric company was asked to install a larger transformer than usually required by a residence. But apparently that was not enough electrical power to operate the grow lamps required to raise 800 marijuana plants at a time. Instead of asking the electric company for more power, the men spliced into the Tri-County Electric line and were stealing electricity, Thompson said.

"They had the operation set up so that one person could operate it during the growing season,'' he noted.

To harvest the illegal crop, Thompson said the men would hire a half-dozen Hispanic workers in Arizona and drive them to Tennessee. For part of the journey the windows on the van would be covered so the workers did not know where they were.

"They would drive right into the cave and let them out to begin working,'' the prosecutor said.

"As for distributing it, we're sure that some of it went to Nashville and other locations in the area."

There could be more arrests, but Thompson said he believes the ringleaders of the operation have already been nabbed.

"It's just unbelievable what they've done. It's like something out of a James Bond movie."


By LEON ALLIGOOD
Staff Writer




TOPGUN said:
yea looks like a cop car in the back drive way. man I would love to know the story behind this one.
 

99 Stangbanger

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Stupid people to risk everything they had and to steal electric. Its always happens that way.

You see all the bust's on Cops when the copper pulls over a car for speeding or a tail light out ect.... and finds 20 pounds of weed. WTF was the guy thinking :dunno:

As for all that pretty looking smoke :biggthump
 

Blood on Blood

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There is a heaven and it is here on Earth, under that house, before the damn cops came...

All I would need is cable television, good looking women (that give it up) and food. Wait a minute, that sounds like the Mormons in Utah, but I am not sure about the good looking women part...

Anyway, I would brew my own beer...


Dave
 

ShelbyGuy

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the book "reefer madness - a history of marijuana prohibition in america" is good reading on how it became illegal in the first place.

has more to do with j. edgar hoover not wanting black jazz musicians fraternizing with white women than anything else.

since its illegal to study scientifically, the only data they go on was done in the 50's on prison inmates. in studies that were skewed to produce a desired result.


vote.

VenomInside said:
they should just make it legal.. have you heard of really anything bad happening from it?
 

Blood on Blood

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ShelbyGuy said:
the book "reefer madness - a history of marijuana prohibition in america" is good reading on how it became illegal in the first place.

has more to do with j. edgar hoover not wanting black jazz musicians fraternizing with white women than anything else.

since its illegal to study scientifically, the only data they go on was done in the 50's on prison inmates. in studies that were skewed to produce a desired result.


vote.


Hoover, the anal invader, is the source of pot being illegal? Jackass, dig him up so I can punch him in the face, or what's left of his face.
 

Since 1964

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Do you think if it was legal we wouldn't get paranoid? DUH?

Just look at my 330lb fat ass and you'll see why it's ilegal!

I can just see the obesity problems in this country if pot were legal. I actually speak from a disadvantge you see, I quit smoking ciggarets and so how do think I treat a joint, or a what ever? Try getting it out of my hands, an then the munchies, Oh my God, the stuff we get today also, FFFFUUUUCCCKKKKK!
 

cyac5l8trfcar

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VenomInside said:
they should just make it legal.. have you heard of really anything bad happening from it?


Never once has anyone o.d. from it. It's impossible. You'll pass out long before you could die. The canibible 1&2 are great reading material or menues.


side note, mikey, want to go to summerfest tomorrow night? it's styx, soil, P.O.D., yellow card, cheap trick and/or train. Were gonna leave around 6ish.
 
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