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Agents find poppies, pot
Illegal plants grown near Brooklet, officials say
W WOODSON HANNON
Woodson Oglesby Hannon
Bulloch County Drug Suppression Team agents found five marijuana plants at a U.S. 80 East location in Brooklet Tuesday, but they were more interested in the one-acre field of poppies nearby. These aren’t the garden-variety poppies, but the type of poppy opiates are derived from, said Bulloch County Sheriff’s Capt. Rick Rountree. Woodson Oglesby Hannon, 57, of U.S. 80 East, Brooklet, planted over 140,000 poppy plants and was “in fact using the poppies to produce illegal substances,” said Bulloch County Sheriff Lynn Anderson.
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