CORN COVER: TOO-TALL MARIJUANA PLANTS BRING CALL TO THE SHERIFF

Neillsville -- "If you build it, he will come."

But if you grow it too tall, police may find it.

That's a lesson learned by a 38-year-old Clark County man who authorities
say tried to turn his neighbor's cornfield into his own personal field of
dreams by planting about 35 marijuana plants between the rows of corn. But
because this has been a pretty good growing season in central Wisconsin,
the marijuana plants grew to between 8 and 10 feet -- much higher than the
corn that surrounded them.

And when an anonymous tipster called the Sheriff's Department to tell them
that she suspected the man was growing marijuana, detectives had little
trouble finding the huge pot plants.

Dennis Kopinski, of Humbird, was charged Tuesday with manufacturing
marijuana. Kopinski, already on probation after a drug conviction, faces up
to five years in prison and a $50,000 fine if convicted.

Kopinski, who remained in the Clark County Jail Thursday, is scheduled to
appear in court Aug. 12.