INDUSTRY – Local, county and state law enforcement agencies, acting on a tip, seized 44 marijuana plants from land off Mosher Hill Road on Friday. The tip came via the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office hot line Thursday.
Eight officers, including a Maine Drug Enforcement Administration agent, Farmington police and Franklin County Sheriff’s deputies, returned to sheriff’s headquarters covered in dirt and sweat from the harvest Friday afternoon.
It was a good day, according to Richard Billian, new deputy with the department. This was his first drug-seizure experience.
Detective Thomas White, Lt. Niles Yeaton and Deputy David Rackliffe also participated in the uprooting, as did several Farmington police officers.
The plants estimated to be worth $44,000 on the street, were found in a 100- by 100-foot plot off Mosher Hill Road, White said.
A state drug agent took the plants to a warehouse, where they will be dried and destroyed.
Police said they do not have any suspects.
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