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DODD CITY -- A Fannin County resident was all set up for indoor farming, but now he's in jail. According to Fannin County Sheriff Kenneth Moore, the product he was growing was marijuana.
About 7 p.m. Monday, the Sheriff's Office narcotics deputies went with a search warrant in hand to the residence about five miles south of Dodd City. They obtained the warrant, Moore reported, after receiving an anonymous tip of suspicious activity and then conducting surveillance on the residence, which is just west of FM 2077 on County Road 3040. Moore identified the suspect as 23-year-old Levi Jordan Stroud of Bonham. He said Stroud is leasing the Dodd City area home.
The investigators witnessed, during their surveillance, the suspect carrying large commercial lighting, irrigation systems, reflective material, potted planters, and other items consistent with an indoor marijuana farm into the home. Upon their return with the warrant, Stroud was in the front yard.
Inside was just what investigators anticipated, an operational hydroponic indoor marijuana garden, the Sheriff said. Hydroponics gardening is the method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions instead of soil.
At this point in Moore's report, he refers to "suspects" instead of just the one suspect. Suspects had installed an irrigation system, high-power sodium lights, and evaporators, and had 28 marijuana plants growing. A more detailed search of the house revealed an additional five pounds of marijuana, a loaded handgun and more than $1,100 cash.
"This is one of the more sophisticated indoor marijuana grows that we have seen in Fannin County," Moore said. "The commercial equipment used in this criminal activity cost a lot of money, and the operation didn't even last a day, proving that criminal enterprise is a high risk business, I could not be more happy with our investigators."
Stroud was jailed on a charge of delivery of marijuana between 5-50 pounds.
http://www.heralddemocrat.com/articles/2008/02/06/local_news/doc47aa3bff49022430422235.txt
About 7 p.m. Monday, the Sheriff's Office narcotics deputies went with a search warrant in hand to the residence about five miles south of Dodd City. They obtained the warrant, Moore reported, after receiving an anonymous tip of suspicious activity and then conducting surveillance on the residence, which is just west of FM 2077 on County Road 3040. Moore identified the suspect as 23-year-old Levi Jordan Stroud of Bonham. He said Stroud is leasing the Dodd City area home.
The investigators witnessed, during their surveillance, the suspect carrying large commercial lighting, irrigation systems, reflective material, potted planters, and other items consistent with an indoor marijuana farm into the home. Upon their return with the warrant, Stroud was in the front yard.
Inside was just what investigators anticipated, an operational hydroponic indoor marijuana garden, the Sheriff said. Hydroponics gardening is the method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions instead of soil.
At this point in Moore's report, he refers to "suspects" instead of just the one suspect. Suspects had installed an irrigation system, high-power sodium lights, and evaporators, and had 28 marijuana plants growing. A more detailed search of the house revealed an additional five pounds of marijuana, a loaded handgun and more than $1,100 cash.
"This is one of the more sophisticated indoor marijuana grows that we have seen in Fannin County," Moore said. "The commercial equipment used in this criminal activity cost a lot of money, and the operation didn't even last a day, proving that criminal enterprise is a high risk business, I could not be more happy with our investigators."
Stroud was jailed on a charge of delivery of marijuana between 5-50 pounds.
http://www.heralddemocrat.com/articles/2008/02/06/local_news/doc47aa3bff49022430422235.txt
