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Albany Dougherty Drug Unit Agents break up a marijuana operation, and seize more than one hundred thousand dollars worth of plants and pot.
Agents caught the growers coming out of the woods on Newton Road about 11:30 Monday, after they had harvested more than nine pounds off their plants.
There were 15 seven or eight foot tall marijuana plants that agents found growing in the woods in the 5400 block of Newton Road. Agents had gotten a tip about the operation, and stopped 51-year-old Edward Conner and 29-year-old Levi Leeson as they drove out of the woods.
In the back of their truck, a garbage bag full of marijuana they had just trimmed off their plants.
Inside Conner's home in South Dougherty County agents found more marijuana plants and product ready to sell, plant food and seeds they had ordered over the Internet, even what is called a marijuana grower's bible.
Something drug agents had never seen before they found in a freezer at Conner's home, drink containers with marijuana plants in water frozen.
They will send those off to the crime lab for more study.
Conner and Leeson are being held in the Dougherty County jail.
Maj. Bill Berry is 6' 2" tall, and the plants are taller
51-year-old Edward Conner
29-year-old Levi Leeson
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