Incredible pot bust in TN

[Sub Atomic]

This is how they grow it in Tennessee . This grow was underneath a
house in a cave. The entrance was through a secret hydraulic door in the
garage that led to a concrete ramp that went about 50 yards into the
ground. Inside the cave was living quarters and a secret escape hatch that
led you through a tunnel that exited via another hydraulic door that
opened up a rock on the outside. It was very elaborate. The set up
allowed them to harvest every 60 days which resulted in multi-million
dollar sales. One of the guys busted was living in a house on the water
in FL and had a nice yacht.
One of the agents here in Nashville worked on this for 5 years
before the warrant was finally served in December."

http://www.phishhook.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=550448


Pics at the link.

Wow.

[FormerDittoHead]

1. LITERALLY sounds like the Batcave!

But seriously - THAT was a LOT of work!

[shadowknows69]

2. I can't bear to look any longer

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[formercia]

3. This Bud's for you

real pros..

[mountainvue]

30. Seems like a waste of taxpayer

money to pursue these people.

[misternormal]

4. "Shrugs"

It's just pot... Now if it was Meth, Coke or Heroin... I'd say the accomplished something.

Just my opinion.

[Swamp Rat]

5. Too bad

I guess entrepreneurship is frowned upon in this non-democratic society we now have.

And screw those police that bust people for pot. They are just as immoral as the 'laws' they enforce.

[Mythsaje]

6. Quite an operation...n/t

[SHRED]

7. Some dumb ass...

...got loose lips no doubt, and sunk that ship.
That is how it happens 99.9% of the time.

An uncontrolled ego is a terrible thing.

[SHRED]

8. The fact that hemp/grass is illegal, is proof...

...we live in fascist times.

[misternormal]

9. Agreed... completely n/t

[Viva_La_Revolution]

10. just legalize it already!

These guys should be out looking for meth, smack, coke, and terrorists.

:(

[Greyhound]

22. No that's too dangerous. The coke and meth guys use their products

and have billions to prepare and arm themselves and the will to die to protect their income. The alphabet soup of drug enforcement agencies are terrified that if they got serious about fighting those guys, we'd become just like Columbia, dead agents, dead judges, dead politiwhores popping up all over the country.
No, it's so much easier to make your numbers busting pot smokers.

[Danieljay]

11. Cheney's Bunker?

That is an amazing operation. I do say.

[RufusEarl]

12. Makes my eyes red just looking at the pic's!

[wakeme2008]

13. IMHO their electric bill probably was what did them in

Not real detective work or loose lips.

[SHRED]

18. They should have use solar panels and a reversable meter or...

...set-up a shop with welders and keep it messy like work is always being done.

[spag68]

19. electric bill

As a retired electrician I wish they would have called me. I could have fixed them up with an alternate energy source

[Scout1071]

33. No way. Absolutely no way they go through all of that elaborate

planning and not think about their electric bill. I'm sure they had alternative energy.

If an undercover agent worked on it for 5 years, then said agent probably infiltrated over time.

[spag68]

14. pot

This is the most stupid thing I have heard of lately. 5 years of investigition! this while we give away our ports and asama is on the loose. they should get over it and legalize it.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

24. Yes, this is just plain sad.

Welcome to DU, BTW!

[Ezlivin]

15. We were supposed to be drug-free by 1995! What happened?

Like the war on terror, the war on drugs is a misguided notion that only bleeds the treasury dry.

Below is a LTTE that I sent a while back.

The DEA’s recent investigation of a Midwestern methampetamine drug operation uncovered a connection with terrorism. This should come as no surprise. In a single night’s work in a makeshift lab, one person can make $2.5 million worth of methampetamine. The money can then be funneled to other criminal organizations. And this is easy money: The U.S. has an insatiable appetite for drugs of all kinds, both legal and illegal. In fact, in California the profits from marijuana alone exceeds the GDP of many nations.

Some say that our current War on Drugs can be won by “getting tough” and appropriating enough funding. In 1969 we spent $66 million. Under President Nixon’s “get tough” program, that number increased more than tenfold to $796 million. In 2000 the federal budget for the War on Drugs was a staggering $19.2 billion. During the last 15 years we have spent over $300 billion, more than three times the cost to put a man on the moon. What do we have to show for this expenditure?

Our legislators in Congress know good politics, but not good policy. In 1988 they issued this proclamation: “It is the declared policy of the United States to create a Drug-Free America by 1995.” They followed that action by requesting yet more taxpayer money.

1995 has come and gone. Where is the “Drug-Free” America for which we’ve been taxed? Congress has already spent billions and it still wants more. We will not be drug-free in 2005 (10 years beyond their self-proclaimed deadline) or any other year. As we should have learned during Prohibition, you cannot legislate away the law of supply and demand.

The solution is simple: re-legalize and regulate all illegal drugs. It is much easier to control, regulate and police a legal market than an illegal one. Budweiser and Coors executives don’t get into gunplay over territorial disputes nor are the profits diverted to terrorism. Valium labs are not popping up in neighborhoods. Why? These dangerous, mind-altering and sometimes addictive drugs are legal and regulated.

It’s time to just say no to the War on Drugs.

[Wickerman]

25. Yet again, I wish I could nominate a single post n/t

[alfredo]

36. The problem is the supply side drug war. As long as there is demand

there will be a supply. They know that, but insist on a policy that fills the coffers of the government and the prison industry.

The drug trade serves a purpose, just as Castro and the war on terror.

[LeighAnn]

16. What a 5 year investigation really means

"We didn't want to bust these people until they had accumulated assets that we could seize"

[Mutley]

17. All that time and money spent trying to hide their stash

and they still got caught. They may as well have been just growing it in the garage itself.

[catmandu57]

20. I just want a little one man operation

growing just enough to keep my needs met, if I did they throw the book just as hard at me as these guys. It's way past time we get rid of these draconian laws, I think that if people ran for office against this insanity they'de win hands down.
Somebody has to start somewhere.

[alfredo]

21. The country music industry grinds to a halt.

This is what happens when one gets greedy.

[leftchick]

23. that must be some kind of super weed

I was going to ask how in the world the pot could have the room to mature in a bunker like that. Then I saw the last photos with the buds on those short plants. OMG, pot growing has come a long way since I was eighteen.

[Blue_In_AK]

34. Depending on whether it's indica or sativa,

plants can grow and bud from 2 feet to 10. Don't ask me how I know.

[leftchick]

35. okay I won't ask

;)

[Big Kahuna]

26. KHAAAAANNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!

[slaveplanet]

27. Why pan for gold , when you can just grow green

It's damn near the same price per ounce due to prohibition.

It really works out for some folks.

How much you want to bet the "authorities" will just resume operations once they plop this guy in their cronies prisons and send the bill to us.

They were just taking care of the competition here...

prohibition is the oldest trick in the book.

[alcibiades_mystery]

28. Why can't they just leave these people alone

For fucking pot, all this work? For cannabis? Puh-leez. The prohibition will be laughed at by generations in the future, and anyone who supports it now will be looked at the way we look at ridiculous flat-earthers and the prosecutors of Galileo. What a fucking disgrace it is.

[mountainvue]

29. You'd think their electric bill would

be abnormally high.

[peacebuzzard]

31. Again: conservatively disproportionate.

Another political/legal/medical/social fiasco.
Those plants look like they were an agriculturally engineered superior product. This is a sad waste of resources.

[Clark2008]

32. ROFLMAO!!

I was a police and crime reporter in Tennessee for 12 years. I can tell you stories that almost pale in comparison; however, one of the funniest moments I remember was interviewing the district attorney for the Fourth Judicial Circuit after a huge pot bust that resulted in the seizing of tons of marijuana from Mexico. He said, "I don't know why anyone would want to transport marijuana in from Mexico. Everyone knows the stuff that's grown here is better." :rofl:

He was correct, you know. ;)

[johnaries]

38. Yep, TN homegrown rivals Hawaiian and Thai.

When I smoked, my favorite was Cumberland County "skunkweed" - totally unique buzz. So-called because of it's smell, but a good smoke. Actually made you want to get up and do stuff instead of being lethargic. Of course, that was 25 years ago.

I gave up pot, because after a while it just made me sleepy and stupid. Rum is my drug of choice - which is actually more dangerous than pot. But, it's legal.

[DrBloodmoney]

37. They got busted because

they bypassed the meter. It's a common cause of getting busted in these larger operations. Most likely the people arrested weren't the actual operators... just the plant-sitters.

Your tax dollars at work sheeple. 'They're growing devil-weed- FRY THOSE SINNERS!'

[leftofthedial]

39. gonna be a slow month on Music Row

[OneBlueSky]

40. very, very cool . . . I want one! . . . :) n/t

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