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FAYETTE – A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a Fayette man and three other people are under investigation for their alleged involvement in an indoor marijuana operation in Jefferson County.
The warrant was issued for William R. "Bill" Brown, who was last seen in a 1996 Ford Ranger, Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain said Wednesday.
Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics officers went to a rural home Tuesday about three miles outside Fayette where investigators retrieved plants from an "indoor growth operation," said Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics Maj. Ronnie Frazier.
Agents seized more than 700 plants. They said there could have been as many as 1,000 plants.
Strain described the operation as both "significant and sophisticated."
Strain said the suspects were using high-tech soil watering systems and "cloning the plants to produce a high quality, high grade marijuana."
Authorities would not release the identifications of the other suspects – a man, a woman and a 16-year-old who lived at the home.
A barn, a house and a mobile home were used to store the marijuana, Frazier said Tuesday.
"It's like a commercial operation," Frazier said. "This is one of the largest we've come across, the way it's set up. This guy knows what he's doing."
The operation had been going on for about a year and a half, Frazier said.
The Clarion-Ledger
© 2005, The Clarion-Ledger.
https://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050203/NEWS01/502030378/1002/NEWS01
The warrant was issued for William R. "Bill" Brown, who was last seen in a 1996 Ford Ranger, Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain said Wednesday.
Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics officers went to a rural home Tuesday about three miles outside Fayette where investigators retrieved plants from an "indoor growth operation," said Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics Maj. Ronnie Frazier.
Agents seized more than 700 plants. They said there could have been as many as 1,000 plants.
Strain described the operation as both "significant and sophisticated."
Strain said the suspects were using high-tech soil watering systems and "cloning the plants to produce a high quality, high grade marijuana."
Authorities would not release the identifications of the other suspects – a man, a woman and a 16-year-old who lived at the home.
A barn, a house and a mobile home were used to store the marijuana, Frazier said Tuesday.
"It's like a commercial operation," Frazier said. "This is one of the largest we've come across, the way it's set up. This guy knows what he's doing."
The operation had been going on for about a year and a half, Frazier said.
The Clarion-Ledger
© 2005, The Clarion-Ledger.
https://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050203/NEWS01/502030378/1002/NEWS01
