State Patrol finds $2 million in marijuana

Police in Twiggs County discovered nearly 2-million dollars in marijuana plants with a little help from the air.

The Georgia State Patrol spotted the 2,000 marijuana plants during a routine helicopter survey.

Twiggs County Sheriff Billy Boney says his small department relies on the State Patrol and Bureau of Investigation to help catch those in the drug trade:

“If you don’t have that help from these outside agencies a lot of times it just can’t get done. These people think they can just come out here and hide in the woods and do this. But, we’re actively seeking [that] kind of people out, in this county, anyhow.”

The State Patrol found the plants because of their color. Police pulled up some of the plants by hand and used machetes to cut down others that were up to ten feet tall. No arrests have been made so far in the case.

200 jobs coming to Middle Georgia

One of the nation’s largest sporting goods stores is coming Twiggs County south of Macon. Academy Sports & Outdoors plans to break ground this fall on a distribution center. That also means 200 more jobs. The distribution facility is scheduled to open in early 2009.