Marijuana Seized In Albion, Clarkston

The Quad Cities Drug Task Force seized a pound of marijuana and three garbage bags full of dried leaves and stems at a home in Albion, the task force said Thursday.

Two men are suspected of growing the plants but haven’t been charged yet, the task force said, adding the marijuana was worth $4,000.

Task force members searched a home at 503 W. Third St. in Albion on Tuesday, finding what they described as a marijuana-growing operation. Detectives believe as many as 100 plants were being grown there until recently, when police arrested a friend of the alleged grower on an unrelated matter.

“When he (the grower) got scared, he just flat yanked the plants out of the pots,” said task force member Pat Kelley. Dried plants were lying on the floor when police searched the home, he said.

In an unrelated case, the task force Wednesday night searched 613 Seventh St. in Clarkston, finding one pound of compressed Mexican marijuana, valued at $1,200.

Jack Keith Cook, 41, of Clarkston, was arrested and booked into the Asotin County Jail on two counts of delivery of marijuana and one count of possession with intent to deliver.

The task force includes officers from the Pullman, Colfax, Lewiston and Clarkston areas. , DataTimes