Police pursuing armed, Mercedes-driving man stumble upon illegal grow

Shortly after that conversation, a deputy saw a man matching the physical description of the suspect make eye contact with the officer as the man drove by in a Mercedes vehicle.

The deputy pursued the fleeing vehicle as the man drove through a barbed wire fence and crashed into an illegal weed grow.

Surprisingly, this is not the first time a car crash resulted in the police discovering cannabis offences.

If a property has established a commercial cannabis operation, anything directly contributing to it, including greenhouses, is prohibited,” notes an SCSO Facebook post from last month.

Despite the rules, the county has attracted many illegal grow-ops, oftentimes with thousands of plants.

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