CHARLEVOIX COUNTY -- A big pot bust in Charlevoix County took more than $300,000 of marijuana off the streets.
Tonight, the evidence room at the Charlevoix County Sheriff's Office is packed with weed after officers took more than 300 plants from an illegal grow operation in Boyne City.
The suspect, who hasn't been arraigned yet, lives on High Street near downtown Boyne City.
Undersheriff Chuck Vondra calls this the biggest bust his department has made in quite a while.
The officers also found equipment and substances used to cook narcotics and guns at the home and took a while to collect all of the plants.
"It took a very long time, and with Boyne City police and the Sheriff's Office, we were probably there for three to four hours, working the evidence in the case, and getting it back here to the evidence room," said Undersheriff Vondra.
Officers confiscated all of the plants including lights part of the grow operation and they say the suspect was selling the weed on the streets.
The suspect was arrested for manufacture of 45 kilograms of marijuana, two delivery charges of marijuana, two delivery charges of Xanax, possession of narcotics, and maintaining a drug house.
Also on Thursday, officers flew over parts of the county and found more than 350 plants growing outside.
Some were legitimate Medical Marijuana grow operations, but those that weren't were confiscated and the land-owners were arrested.
