The marijuana eradication efforts of the Indiana State Police are currently underway throughout Indiana and will continue year round. In years past, troopers have been successful in eliminating outdoor cultivated marijuana and growers of the illegal drug have reverted to indoor grow operations.

Outdoors, marijuana growers typically grow their plants on other people's property and in farmer's crops. Indoors, they establish elaborate grow operations using artificial lighting, traditional planting methods and hydroponics within outbuildings and residential homes. Typically, the growers will attempt to conceal the indoor grow operation by covering the home or outbuilding windows from the inside.

Growing marijuana is a crime and is punishable by fines and imprisonment. Failure to report or destroy marijuana plants is also a crime.

Marijuana growers:

• Sell drugs to kids
• Trespass on other people's property
• Destroy precious farmland/crops
• Decrease residential  property values

The public can anonymously report suspicious activity around crop fields, outbuildings and residential homes where the possibility of growing marijuana is suspected to Senior Trooper Ron Halbert Jr. The Marijuana Tip Line is 888-873-1694 or 800-761-2985.

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