By Eric Aasen
The Dallas Morning News
Another week, another pot farm bust in North Texas.
Marijuana plants were discovered Sunday in a wooded Mountain Creek area, near Interstate 20 and Spur 408 and a few miles from a pot farm found earlier this month, Dallas police said.
It was unknown Sunday whether the crop and one found near the Dallas-Grand Prairie border on July 21 were related. The authorities also didn’t know how many plants were discovered Sunday – though one official said “thousands” – or the marijuana’s value.
More details should be revealed today, when U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials are expected to be on site, police said.
The weekend discovery marks the fourth pot farm found in the Dallas area this month.
A Dallas police helicopter spotted the plants around noon Sunday during a regular patrol, Sgt. Dudley Nosworthy said. Police were at the scene Sunday afternoon to secure the site.
Acting on a tip this month, investigators uncovered more than 10,000 marijuana plants worth up to $5 million just west of Sunday’s find. It was the biggest drug crop ever found in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
On July 12, DEA agents found about 325 pot plants a few hundred yards from their office near Spur 482 and Stemmons Freeway. A day before that, Richardson police found about 1,100 marijuana plants inside a house.
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