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LEAVITTSBURG — A man renting a North Leavitt Road home where police found a
large number of marijuana plants and an elaborate growing system in a hidden
room was charged Thursday with felony cultivation.
Sgt. Jeff Orr, member of the Trumbull, Ashtabula, Geauga Law Enforcement
Task Force, said the charge was filed in Warren Municipal Court against Jack
C. Dishong. Dishong could face more charges later, police said.
Police on Wednesday raided 964 N. Leavitt Road and found more than 126
marijuana plants and the growing system.
Dishong was renting the home, police said. Orr said the owners were unaware
of the drug operation.
‘‘There is no connection and I think if the owner knew it was going on, I’m
quite confident he (Dishong) wouldn’t have been there,’’ Orr said.
Police have been watching the home, located across the street from the
LaBrae Schools Complex, for about six months, Orr said.
The cultivation room was concealed by a closet full of clothing in the
master bedroom, and a small, covered opening allowed entrance inside, police
said.
Inside was a complicated growing system, including a contraption similar to
a Ferris wheel that rotated several younger plants around a grow light and
featured an automated watering system, police said.
Orr said the grower used the wheel to cultivate smaller plants and then
moved them into pieces of aluminum siding with a different growing light
until they were ready for harvest. Police also found dried plants that were
being prepared for sale.
Some of the plants had name tags reading ‘‘AK 47’’ and another named
‘‘Skunk.’’
The search was done in concert with another in Portage County by that
county’s Drug Task Force, who found 28 plants in that home, Orr said. Orr
said he was unsure in charges had been filed in connection to that raid.
Police also arrested Kevin Sweeney, 29, of Newton Falls, at the Leavitt Road
home on a probation violation for passing bad checks. He is being held in
Trumbull County Jail.
rselak@tribune-chronicle.com
Correction: The owners of a North Leavitt Road home where police found a
large number of marijuana plants on Wednesday, Clyde G. and Dola J. Garland,
do not live at the home nor were they arrested in connection with the search
as was erroneously reported Thursday. Jack C. Dishong, who was renting the
home, has been charged, police said. Incorrect information was provided to
the Tribune Chronicle. The newspaper sincerely regrets the error.
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