Texas: Police raid house, seize $230000 worth of marijuana

GUNTER — The Gunter Police Department raided a house Tuesday and found $230,000 worth of high-grade marijuana.

“I would not classify this as a grow house; I would describe it as a marijuana factory,” Gunter Police Chief Doug Ritter said. “This was something from out of the movies.”

Gunter Police and the Grayson County Sheriff’s Office suspected illegal drug activity on the property in the 400 block of S. 4th Street and executed a search warrant at 7:30 p.m. Gunter Police said because of the size of the drug operation, a Drug Enforcement Administration task force officer was at the scene of the raid to help officers collect the evidence. Police seized nearly 50 pounds of the marijuana.

The marijuana was deemed high grade based its potency of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, which is the main chemical element that creates intoxicating effect.

Ritter said the drug operation was large and it...

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