100,197 cannabis plants cleared in woods near Goodrich, Texas
Officers and jail inmates cleared 100,197 cannabis plants from 29 fields near Goodrich after a deer hunter found the grow on 26 July 2014. Police valued the crop at about $175 million and reported one arrest.
🇺🇸 Goodrich, Polk County, Texas · Texas, United States
Arrested
1
Plants destroyed
100,197
Value (official estimate)
USD 175,000,000
A deer hunter maintaining a deer lease off Old Highway 35 near Goodrich, about 70 miles north of Houston, stumbled onto a sophisticated outdoor grow on Saturday 26 July 2014 and called police.[1][2]Deputies arriving that day found evidence the growers had just left elaborate campsites with food, clothing, equipment, generators and an irrigation system pumping water from a nearby creek through hoses into the fields.[1][2]
Clearance
On Monday 28 July, more than 70 officers from up to 12 agencies, guided by helicopters and growers’ trails through the undergrowth, worked with Polk County Jail inmates to pull up the plants across 13 fields found at first, later put at 100,197 plants among 29 fields.[1][2]Chief Deputy Byron Lyons of the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said deputies suspected the growers were from outside the area and were fingerprinting the campsites to identify them.[1][2]The Chronicle put the crop’s estimated value at about $175 million, and KTRK reported one person taken into custody.[1]
The hunter found the fields on Saturday 26 July and crews cleared them on Monday 28 July; this report is dated at the 28 July clearance.
Early reports counted more than 40,000 plants recovered with more fields still to clear; this report uses the later 100,197-plant, 29-field total from the same Chronicle page.
One person was reported taken into custody, with forensic work under way; no name, charge or court outcome was reported.
Photos on the source pages could not be verified as showing this grow, so no media entry was added.
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