Deputies find 21,000-lb. pot stash at East Side home
Cocaine and assault weapons recovered
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Pima County Sheriff's DepartmentPima County Sheriff's deputies found more than 1,000 bales of marijuana when they responded to a report of a possible break-in at a home on Loma Linda Place on Tuesday.
Sheriff's deputies found more than 21,000 pounds of marijuana, 16 kilos of cocaine, weapons and body armor when they responded to a call about a possible break-in at an East Side home Tuesday, a spokeswoman said.
Deputies were called to the 9100 block of East Loma Linda Place on Tuesday around 9 p.m. after someone reported a home invasion or break-in, said Deputy Dawn Barkman, a Pima County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman
Deputies found 1,051 bales of pot, worth more than $10 million, the cocaine, an unknown number of assault rifles and body armor, Barkman said.
Barkman said no one was at the home at the time.
The marijuana will be incinerated at an undisclosed location. The county burns confiscated drugs each month, she said, but the amount recovered was unusual.
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What happens to all that weed?
PCSD's Barkman said confiscated drugs are incinerated each month at an undisclosed location.
While it is the department's practice to burn the drugs, dealing with 21,000 pounds is not what they're accustomed to, she said.
But don't go looking the for next burn. She was hush-hush about where and when.
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