MARIJUANA GROW DISCOVERED IN AUSTIN COUNTY
Austin County authorities disrupted a marijuana grow Thursday morning.
At around 8 a.m., the Austin County Sheriff’s Office was called out to a possible marijuana grow field in Cat Spring.
When officers searched the area, they discovered approximately 800 to 1000 marijuana plants, some still growing and others already cut and set to dry.
They also found a small generator and electric water pump, along with electric cords, small black plastic water lines, two small tents and one canopy.
Officers from the Bellville, Sealy, and Wallis police departments, along with the Precinct 2 Constable, destroyed all of the plants, tents, and the canopy. They also impounded the equipment and had it placed in secure storage.
According to Sheriff Jack Brandes, the marijuana grow was on private property in a heavily wooded area, and was totally unknown by the property owner. The Sheriff's Office was unable to provide further detail on the location of the marijuana grow.
Sheriff Brandes advises that all citizens watch their property and report suspicious activity to authorities.
This is in reply to “community member”…I have acreage in Austin County/Cat Spring that I lease to ranchers and hunters. I have not personally driven the acreage in years. I lease to reputable people and assume they monitor usage. However, I would certainly be an owner “who doesn’t know”…so perhaps your sarcastic remarks have a logical explanation.
I think you are replying to Community Member not my REPLY TO COMMUNITY MEMBER post. Just to be clear, I am with you the landowner. We are citing the same kind of circumstances of why the owner doesn’t know, except yours is firsthand.
Love how the owners apparently never know!!
Try this to understand.
Much of the land just across the county line, around Kenney, was once known as the “Kenney Woods”. People would buy a tract of “woodland” for a source of bldg. materials and FIREWOOD, either for their own use or a cash crop to recover some of the cost of the land.
As land values increased it was good capitalism to hold on to the land. By now, ownership might be in the 3rd generation. The original owners did not live there, and the 3rd generation owners might have ask directions to find their property.
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I agree. There is a lot of land in Austin & nearby counties that is wooded. Often it is leased to someone else. There are many folks who run cattle on leased land that is wooded & has areas located behind a stream bed or some other barrier that makes it difficult to get to. Many owners much prefer wooded property. As long as the cattle are regularly accounted for, why would the landowner or person owning the cattle feel the need to go into the area? That is especially true outside the hunting season. It might be a perfect location for someone looking for a place to grow pot, especially if it can be easily reached by someone else’s property or a roadway. I’m not saying the property owner or person using the property should be dismissed out of hand w/o a through investigation. What I’m saying is that both the owner & the person using the land may very well not know about the pot. From what I’ve seen on TV, pot grower may plant a plant or two here & another in another spot where a small natural clearing appears. They may have dozens of plants scattered all over. Most of these folks growing the pot know which property has an area where the owner &/or person using the land seldom enter. These pot growers have no respect for a “POSTED” sign.