(KAIR)--Two men are in cusody in the Jefferson County Jail for allegedly cultivating marijuana.
Sheriff Jeff Herrig says that a hunter discovered a field of what appeared to be the drug on U.S. Army Corp of Engineers property in the lower Ferguson marsh in Valley Falls, on September 28th and contacted the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism. The department quickly made the determination that the plants were not wild, and were in fact placed there. The department then contacted the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department, who then spent the next week setting up surveillance on the area.
Then, on Friday evening, a Jefferson county sheriff's deputy was making his way into the field to change the battery on one of the surveillance cameras when he noticed a pair of lights coming toward him and pulled back. He observed two individuals picking leafs off of the stalks and stuffing them into duffel bags.
Arrested were 38 year old Jeremiah Teller of Pomona and 50 year old Michael Fuller of Savannah, MO. Both men were booked into the Jefferson County Jail for one count each of unlawful cultivation or distribution of a controlled substance, unlawful possession of a controlled substance, unlawful possession of a drug precursor or paraphernalia, distribution or intent to distribute drug paraphernalia, and not having a drug tax stamp.
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