DUBLIN, Ohio -- Officials found approximately 600 marijuana plants and nearly $2,000 cash during the investigation of a suspected marijuana-growing operation at a Tartan Fields home.
On September 6, the Union County Sheriff’s Office received a phone call from the homeowner of a home on Tartan Fields Drive in Dublin to report marijuana growing there.
The owner has rented the house out since March of 2009.
According to the owner, she was in town and wanted to do a walkthrough of the home and property. While she was at the house she saw what she believed to be marijuana growing inside. She unlocked the house and called the Union County Sheriffs Office.
Deputies and Detectives from the Union County Sheriffs Office arrived at the house and could smell what they all thought to be marijuana coming from inside the residence.
A search warrant for the Tartan Fields house was obtained and detectives found 292 plants in planters, an additional 300 to 400 harvested plants, grow equipment, $1,960 in cash, and other various items of drug paraphernalia.
The investigation led detectives to a storage unit in Columbus and a search warrant was executed there. Inside the storage unit was more grow equipment.
Consent to search two other houses was also granted. At a home on Excalibur Place in Columbus, detectives found 125 more plants, a handgun, and more grow equipment.
At a residence on Clearview in Columbus, detectives seized a computer, a small amount of marijuana, grow equipment, and miscellaneous drug paraphernalia.
The Columbus Police Department and the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency assisted the Sheriffs Office with the searches and investigation. All of these locations were searched Sept. 6 into Sept. 7.
The investigation is ongoing and no charges have been filed at this time.
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