The Tribune

POLICE were still uprooting plants yesterday at a huge marijuana field found at the rear of Dignity Gardens, thought to contain $500,000 worth of drugs.

Police say around 1pm on Monday, officers from the Drug Enforcement Unit, acting on intelligence, went to an area west of Gladstone Road where the discovered a huge field consisting of thousands of three to 10 foot marijuana plants.

The plants numbered in excess of 20,000.

A 50-year-old man was arrested at the field.

Police also found a shotgun.

They are looking for two other male suspects.

Sources say police also found a make shift drug house containing an estimated 15 pounds of marijuana.

Anyone with information concerning any of these incidents is asked to call police on 919 or 911, the Central Detective Unit on 502-9991 or Crime Stoppers anonymously on 328-TIPS.