More than 6,200 marijuana plants seized near Fremont school in northern Wayne
Deputies following a sheriff's helicopter found seven plots with more than 6,200 marijuana plants near Airport and Lancaster roads in August 2006, about a mile from Norwayne Middle School; the find was valued at a potential 15 million dollars and no arrests were reported.
🇺🇸 near Airport and Lancaster roads, northern Wayne County · North Carolina, United States
Wayne County deputies found more than 6,200 marijuana plants near the intersection of Airport and Lancaster roads on the Friday before the 20 August 2006 report.[1]The sheriff’s helicopter, flying a routine patrol from its base near the Goldsboro-Wayne County Municipal Airport, spotted the plants around noon; off-duty and on-duty SWAT members, sheriff’s deputies and Goldsboro police officers then walked narrow trails through brush and trees to reach the plots.[1]The first clearing held more than 350 plants, and officers worked through seven plots to a total of more than 6,200 plants.[1]The site, about a mile from Norwayne Middle School, included a campsite and a makeshift shack hidden by trees and a canopy where growers were believed to have stayed through the summer.[1]
Sheriff Carey Winders valued the find at a potential 15 million dollars had the plants matured, calling it the second-largest seizure in county history.[1]A September follow-up confirmed the August seizure and said no arrests in the county’s summer marijuana cases had been made.[2]
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