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By Associated Press
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - Authorities in Yakima County have busted a marijuana growing operation near Mabton, southeast of Yakima.
Sgt. Rick Beghtol of the lower Yakima Valley's drug task force estimates the operation involved 20,000 plants. Several thousand plants were found in a drying shed.
Beghtol says three people were arrested Friday morning when the Sunnyside SWAT team raided the house. Two other men escaped into a cornfield.
Officers seized four firearms, including a sawed-off shotgun.
In the past couple of months, drug agents in Yakima County already had pulled up 54,000 marijuana plants before Friday's bust.
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - Authorities in Yakima County have busted a marijuana growing operation near Mabton, southeast of Yakima.
Sgt. Rick Beghtol of the lower Yakima Valley's drug task force estimates the operation involved 20,000 plants. Several thousand plants were found in a drying shed.
Beghtol says three people were arrested Friday morning when the Sunnyside SWAT team raided the house. Two other men escaped into a cornfield.
Officers seized four firearms, including a sawed-off shotgun.
In the past couple of months, drug agents in Yakima County already had pulled up 54,000 marijuana plants before Friday's bust.