RAID NETS $6 MILLION WORTH OF MARIJUANA

Sampson County Sheriff's deputies say they seized $6 million worth of
marijuana in a wooded area in Ivanhoe this week.

The 2,400 marijuana plants were discovered through aerial
surveillance, according to the Sampson County Sheriff's Office.

The people who were growing the plants evacuated just before the raid
on Thursday, the sheriff's office said. Officers found tents, food,
grooming items and irrigation equipment at a campsite near the plants.

"The living conditions were unsanitary with a toothbrush and razor
hanging over a murky creek, where the tenants apparently took their
baths and washed their clothes," the sheriff's office said in a news
release. "The irrigation system was comprised of a water pump and
generator that were placed in the dug-out area of the creek bed, and
it fed several different hoses that went to different plots."

The people growing the marijuana were "squatters" who were using
someone else's land, the sheriff's office said.