Mint Hill, NC (The Weekly Vice) - Michael MacConnell, a 40-year-old Mint Hill man was arrested late Wednesday after police found a massive pot farm inside his home......which was within a short walk of the city's town hall and police station.
According to Mint Hill police, officers were called to the MacConnell's home after a man came into the station and complained he was assaulted at MacConnell’s residence.
Investigators searched MacConnell’s home as a standard procedure for the assault complaint, finding a massive pot farm that contained more than 300 marijuana plants.
Police also recovered 30 pounds of processed marijuana and a number of chemicals known for manufacturing methamphetamine. Mint Hill Police Chief, Tim Ledford, called it “The largest operation I have seen in my career”.
Investigators at the scene said the chemicals found inside the residence could have caused an explosion strong enough to take out the entire neighborhood.
MacConnell was booked into the Mecklenburg County Jail on charges of trafficking, possession of drug paraphernalia and manufacturing controlled substances. His bond was set at $36,000.
The Weekly Vice Opinion:
Police never saw any traffic going in and out of MacConnell's house? It seems like an investigation should have been opened long before this, instead of just stumbling upon it the way they did. You know, since this was "the largest operation they have ever seen" and all........
If you're going to have a 300 plant pot farm, perhaps it's not such a great idea attract police attention by assaulting people.
Mandi Milenko
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Pretty smart location actually. Cops coming on and off duty aren't paying any attention to what goes on 50 feet away.They just want to do their paper work and go home.
Assaulting your customers leading to a police raid. Not so smart.
Looks like Mint Hill is going to be dry for awhile...
300 plants.... where in the hell do you fit that many plants in a house and not eventually get caught?
If the Girls Gone Wild Bus would have visited the house the police would have been there in a New York minute. I’ll bet they wouldn’t let that one slide by them.
Is it me or does he sort of have a dented head?
really don't care about the plants, but for the meth lab stuff. He's gotta go.
CHIEF:
"Okay boys, we've got 300 pot plants. What else have we got?
COP 1:
"I found this drano under the bathroom sink. Two sudafed tablets in the medicine cabinet."
COPS 2:
I found these lithium batteries in his camera and brake fluid in the brake fluid resevoir in his car."
CHIEF:
"Just as I suspected! We got a meth lab here!"
Mr. Bone, I don't think it's his head. I think it's that lame ass comb over!
This is really a big crime.
not even a clue who he is. so what do you think?
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