600 marijuana plants seized from Ford County field

ROBERTS – One week after a rural Thawville couple were arrested for allegedly growing more than 2,000 cannabis plants in Iroquois County, another substantial marijuana-growing operation has been discovered, this time in Ford County.

Friday's seizure of nearly 600 cannabis plants from a farm field near Roberts was the largest Ford County Sheriff Mark Doran had seen in 19 years of law enforcement experience.

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