Sheriff: $500M in poppy plants seized in North Carolina
CLAREMONT, N.C. (AP) — A field of poppy plants that could be used to make opium was discovered in North Carolina and had an estimated value of $500 million, a sheriff says. Catawba County Sheriff Coy Reid said the only other opium poppy plant field found in the U.S. this year was in California. The acre (nearly half a hectare) of poppy plants were in rows, similar to how corn would be planted, in a field behind a home. "One of our narcotics investigators came to the house looking for something else. When he knocked on the door, the guys ...
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