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Sheriffs Recover 65 Marijuana Plants in Kendall

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Orleans County Sheriff’s Deputies recently recovered several marijuana plants being cultivated at two separate locations in the Town of Kendall.

On Tue., Oct. 7, 2014, at approximately 5:45 p.m., Deputies J.J. Cole and T.N. Tooley were sent to the 16400 block of Roosevelt Highway (State Route 18), after a combine operator discovered the plants growing in a corn field he was threshing. The deputies subsequently seized fifty-five (55) plants from that location. Neither the combine operator nor the property owner had any prior knowledge of the plants or the grower(s).

At approximately 7:05 p.m., that same day, Deputies Cole and Tooley responded to the 16400 block of Carr Road, in response to a report of a “suspicious vehicle and person(s)” in the area. Two males had been observed exiting a vehicle & running into the adjacent corn field. When patrols arrived, the vehicle/person(s) had already left the area. Deputies Cole and Tooley observed a pathway leading into the corn field. They followed the path and recovered ten (10) additional marijuana plants being grown there.

The sixty-five (65) recovered plants were subsequently destroyed.

Scott D. Hess,
Sheriff

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