Ellis Co. sheriff’s investigators have arrested 46-year-old Dwayne Marshall Nielsen on a charge of pot possession (strangely, a rather minor charge) after finding a sophisticated growing operation hidden beneath is Waxahachie home, reports The Dallas Morning News.
Nielsen is out of jail on a $40,000 bond, after police found his so-called “indoor farm” consisting of about 150 active plants capable – or so the narcos have estimated – of producing some 40-pounds of dope every other month. Apparently the cops had been working the Nielsen case with Drug Enforcement Administration investigators since October and were ultimately tipped to the location of the grow basement, accessible only through a secret door located behind a bookcase in Nielsen’s house, the daily reports. Ellis Co. Sheriff’s Capt. Danny Williams said the raid was tough work: “The odor was hard to describe, but it wasn’t good,” he said. “We had to get the fire department in there to help air it out so we could work.”
In other words, it was the good shit.
This article appears in July 11 • 2008.