Teen Grows Pot On Deputy Police Chief's Land

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OCALA - A teenager picked the wrong real estate on which to grown nine potted marijuana plants.

The 17-year-old male was arrested this past weekend after hiding the illegal crop on the vacant wooded property of Ocala Police Deputy Chief Greg Graham, according to the Marion County Sheriff?s Office.

Graham was tipped off Saturday by neighbors about the marijuana plants on his Southeast 66th Street property, which he bought two months ago as an investment. He called the city and county's multi-drug unit and met detectives there.

Deputies with the Sheriff's Office confiscated nine potted marijuana plants on the lot. The teen, whom the Star-Banner will not identify because of his age, was charged with cultivation of marijuana and taken to the county's Juvenile Assessment Center.

"I have no idea why he picked my property," said Graham, who has known the teen for five or six years.

According to a Sheriff's Office report, a neighbor witnessed the teen in the wooded lot on Friday, which was about 100 yards from the teen's home on Southeast 62nd Street. The neighbor, who said she did not want to be identified, told the Star-Banner she knew the property belonged to Graham, a good friend of her family.

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