Agents seize 1,200 pounds of pot in Pickerington
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 01:50 PM

By Jeb Phillips
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

More than 1,200 pounds of marijuana seized Friday in Pickerington (Ohio) came as a result of a four-month investigation that isn't over yet.
Authorities are not releasing the addresses where the drugs were found or the names of three people arrested in the case. That could tip off other suspects, said Pickerington police Cmdr. Steven Annetts.
"We're still trying to track a couple of individuals out of this," said Cmdr. Eric Brown of the Fairfield-Hocking Major Crimes Unit.
The major crimes unit and the South Central Ohio High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force seized the drugs Friday afternoon after Pickerington police made traffic stops on three vehicles. Those vehicles came from two houses that were under surveillance, Brown said.

Authorities found about 1,100 pounds of marijuana in one home and about 100 pounds in another. An additional 46 pounds was found in two of the vehicles. The drugs found in the vehicles were used as evidence in getting search warrants for the two addresses, Annetts said.
One of the houses is in Fairfield County (OH) and the other is in Franklin County (OH).

The large amount of marijuana - its valued at $1.8 million - and the kind of packaging suggest that it is from the area around the United States' border with Mexico, Brown said.

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