Police seize marijuana plants

By Doug Russell, News Editor

July 9 — It was a citizen’s call that got the attention, and a citizen’s call that netted the Haskell County Sheriff’s Department and District 18 Narcotics Task Force more than 250 marijuana plants on Thursday.

Officers drove to an unidentified location near Kinta, where they found the plants growing among brush piles. The plants were located on private property near an old gas well site, officers said.

“There wasn’t enough growth for me to think it was being cultivated,” Sheriff Brian Hale said.

Still, officers examined the area. “There were no signs of watering or manicuring, so we harvested the plants,” Hale said. “We didn’t have any way of knowing whose marijuana it was.”

Deputy Jeremy French, Hale and Task Force Investigator Tim Turner cut and pulled plants for hours in the 90-plus degree heat. Some of the plants were relatively small, only a foot or two tall. Others were larger, towering 10 feet or more above their roots.

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