CAMERA SPOTS MARIJUANA

PUYALLUP -- Normally, the video from Puyallup's sewers falls a little short
of must-see TV. But a tiny camera checking one of the lines found something
that wasn't supposed to be there: marijuana.

Puyallup police said a camera lowered Oct. 23 into a sewer on a routine
maintenance check spotted marijuana plants being flushed into the line.
Public Works officials traced the plants to the home of a 30-year-old woman
and informed police, who searched the house and found 29 growing plants and
430 grams of pot, said police spokeswoman Shelby Barager.

The woman, Katherine Larson, was charged in Pierce County Superior Court
with unlawfully manufacturing a controlled substance and unlawfully
possessing it with intent to distribute.

Police said they don't know why the marijuana was being flushed down the
toilet.