NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
February 5, 2008
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
(850) 651-7420
INDOOR MARIJUANA GROW OPERATION IN DESTIN
The Okaloosa County
Multi-Agency Drug Task Force (DTF) executed an afternoon narcotics search
warrant in the Destin neighborhood of Indian Bayou this afternoon (Tuesday).
Investigators obtained a search warrant for 28 Country Club Dr. East.
There, they uncovered an indoor marijuana grow operation.
Investigators
from the Sheriffs Office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement
discovered that Suspect/ George Harold Ward Jr (DOB 09-30-1950 of 28 Country
Club) converted on interior part of his residence into a grow facility.
The room had special modifications to promote plant growth without sunlight.
Over 40 mature high-grade marijuana plants were seized with a street value of
approximately $ 43,000.00
Ward was
arrested and charged with Cultivation of Marijuana.
Okaloosa
County Sheriff Charlie Morris says indoor marijuana cultivation is becoming more
prevalent in Florida, but law enforcement is committed to seeking out and
arresting drug law violators.
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