STATE POLICE ERADICATING RECORD AMOUNTS OF POT

(08/23/2008)
State Police are making record busts worth millions of dollars on their war on marijuana.

State Police in Mingo County have made the largest drug bust in the state and the largest in the county in at least 20 years.

Troopers say they found more than 10,000 plants as large as 12 to 15 feet tall in the Beech Creek area, the approximate street value of the marijuana is close to $21.3 million.

Troopers in Mason County have found nearly $19.8 million of marijuana so far in 2008, making 8 arrests.