FAYETTE COUNTY OFFICIALS CONFISCATE AROUND 2,500 MARIJUANA PLANTS

  

Fayette County agents seized approximately 2,500 marijuana plants Thursday afternoon.

According to Sheriff Keith Korenek, several narcotics units and officials conducted a search along Barton Creek around 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, to reports of a marijuana grow.

Searching off of State Highway 71 near Kirtley—a small community between Bastrop and LaGrange—officials discovered around 2,500 marijuana plants in a field.  Sheriff’s deputies, the narcotics unit, DEA and DPS agents, Homeland Security agents, and Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Program officials confiscated the plants.

Despite extensive air and ground search, authorities have not located any potential suspects in the area.