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FARMINGTON — Authorities confiscated 30 marijuana plants
from outside a home on Girdle Road Tuesday afternoon after spotting them
from the air in a helicopter.
The raid uncovered the biggest cache in the two days of searching throughout
Trumbull and Ashtabula counties, a report from the Trumbull, Ashtabula and
Geauga (TAG) Law Enforcement Task Force said.
Charges, which could include marijuana cultivation, are pending. Jeff Orr,
commander of the TAG Task Force, said a warrant to search inside the home
also is pending.
He said the plants would be bagged and taken to the state Bureau of Criminal
Identification and Investigation to be weighed.
Police received an anonymous tip about the Girdle Road home a few months
prior to the search, Orr said. The marijuana was found planted in buckets
near a pond behind the home, reports said. More plants were found growing
near other buildings on the property.
During the two-day search, task force officers found a combined 533
marijuana plants in Trumbull and Ashtabula counties. Police were helped in
their search of properties by low-flying helicopters.
‘‘This is a continuing saga,’’ Orr said. ‘‘We flew through the entire
northern half of Trumbull County (Tuesday).
Helicopters flew at an altitude of 1,000 feet while searching. Orr said they
had to fly low to be able to identify marijuana amid other plants.
‘‘We find (marijuana) mostly in fields, cornfields and wooded areas,’’ Orr
said.
Orr said the task force conducts the flyovers a couple times each year. He
said searches could be surveillance of suspected fields or could result in
raids such as Tuesday’s.
The TAG task force operates under the Ohio Attorney General’s BCI narcotics
eradication program.
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