Pot growers moving closer to SLC: Field of 3,000 plants found
Sep 27, 2009 Online Issue
In a sign large-scale marijuana growers are operating on the Wasatch Front, police and federal agents removed about 3,000 plants from a field 
in Morgan County on Friday.
The field was on private ground near Mormon Flats in the popular East Canyon. Morgan County Sheriff’s Deputy Tyler Grose said investigators found the field and camp after a citizen’s tip. No arrests have been made.
Mike Root, a supervisory special agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, called the marijuana growers “creatures of opportunity” and they apparently identified a water source in the Wasatch Mountains to hydrate their plants.
“They’re really getting hit hard this year” by law enforcement, Root said, and that might be pushing growers into populated areas.
It was the second such find in Morgan County this month. The first field, also found near Mormon Flats, had about one-third as many plants.
Law enforcement has found dozens of marijuana fields and found tens of thousands of plants in Utah the past two years as Mexican cartels have moved growing operations here. Most of those fields have been in southern Utah. A few have been found in the Oquirrh Mountains in Tooele County.
The Morgan County find was small compared with some of the 10,000-plant fields found elsewhere in the state, but it is the closest growers have come to metropolitan Salt Lake City.
SOURCE: THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
Tags: Morgan County, Mormon Flats, Tooele County
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