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20,000 marijuana plants in preserve destroyed [IL]
    #7220471 - 07/24/07 11:04 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

20,000 marijuana plants in preserve destroyed
July 24, 2007 - Chicago Sun-Times

Police today began tearing down and burning at least 20,000 marijuana plants being grown in a Cook County Forest Preserve near Barrington.

The plants -- some as much as 7 feet tall -- were being cultivated by growers who used a sophisticated, pump-powered irrigation system to raise the illegal crop at the 1,600-acre Crabtree Nature Center, Cook County and federal authorities said.

Two men have been charged with growing the plants, which were found in 11 separate plots, the largest of which covered nearly a half-acre, Cook County Forest Preserve police said. The growers themselves appparently lived nearby in three makeshift camps, which included tents, cots, kitchen gear and stashes of canned food, authorities said.

"This is one of the biggest finds in some time,'' said Richard Waszak, chief of the Cook County Forest Preserve Police, adding it was clear from the way the plants were cultivated that they had been carefully planted and tended as a cash crop.

Small generators powered pumps that drew water to irrigate the marijuana from at least one lake in the forest preserve. Garden hoses and several small hand-dug reservoirs also were used to keep the plants -- which were aligned in neat rows -- growing.

"You have distinct rows, just like at a farm,'' said Waszak, adding: "I don't think pumps, generators and buckets grow in the forest preserve."

Two men, Bernard Rangel and Jose Verra, both 23, face felony charges for their alleged participation in the growing operation. Police are searching for additional suspects, but declined to say how many people may have been involved.

The growing operation was discovered in June when an intern doing biological research in the park found several men constructing an irrigation system, Waszak said.

Police, aided by the federal Drug Enforcement Agency, set up surveillance equipment and then moved in July 10 to arrest Rangel and Verra.

The street value of the drugs coluld top $5 million, officials estimated.

The plants apparently had been planted in early June, not long before authorities first became aware of the operation.

"They were there for quite some time. It was quite sophisticated," said Special Agent Gary Olenkiewicz, head of the Chicago-area DEA office.

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Re: 20,000 marijuana plants in preserve destroyed [IL] [Re: veggie]
    #7220500 - 07/24/07 11:14 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

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Re: 20,000 marijuana plants in preserve destroyed [IL] [Re: Brainiac]
    #7222829 - 07/25/07 03:58 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

Those duffuses were doomed from the get go. A 1600 acer nature preserve near a large city is not nearly big enough to hide a grow op that size.

People should not be farming in a nature preserve anyway.

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