Drug activity report leads to discovery in local house

While responding Tuesday to a complaint of possible drug activity at a local residence, El Dorado police discovered several implements for growing marijuana.

Officers said they found the items at the residence in the 1100 block of Pine while searching for a resident who had two active warrants for his arrest.

They did not find the man during the room-to-room search, but police said a marijuana leaf on the floor by an open closet in a bedroom led to them finding more marijuana leaves, two large pots and a lamp inside the closet.

Police said they ceased the search for the man and performed a secondary sweep of the house after secondary units arrived on the scene.

A return to the closet led to the discovery of “shriveled up” and “damaged mature” marijuana plants inside the pots, and a lightbulb that had been fashioned into a lamp above the pots.

Also in the closet were a seed pod kit, planter cones – one of which contained a marijuana seed –, plant food, and a large tank that resembled a fire extinguisher, police said.

They said there was a sloshing noise inside the tank and the sound of something solid floating inside it, adding they believed the tank may have contained some sort of pressurized fertilizer.

There was also a bottle with a planter cone inserted into the opening. Police said the bottle contained what appeared to be a small, young marijuana sprout.

Officers found a pipe with freshly ground marijuana inside on a bathroom counter.

The items were seized as evidence. No arrests were made in connection to the drugs and drug paraphernalia.

Union County sheriff’s deputies were called to the scene after police learned that a 31-year-old woman there, Racheal W. Dolden, had an active warrant for her arrest out of the Union County Sheriff’s Office. She was taken into custody by the UCSO, according to a police report.

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