PUEBLO, Colorado (CBS4) – Pueblo County sheriff’s assistants arrested a man after receiving a 911 call from a woman who, according to investigators, was speaking quietly before the call was disconnected. MPs found 274 feet of marijuana and 60 pounds of marijuana packed in an illegal cultivation operation at a home on Keymar Place.
Weiguang Fong (credit: Pueblo County)
The researchers say the discovery is worth about $ 300,000.
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Through an interpreter, Weiguang Fong told deputies that he was the only person at home and that he did not call 911. He allowed deputies to look inside but found no one.
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They say they found marijuana plants in three quarters of the basement. Coloradans, by law, can only have 12 plants per family.
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(credit: Pueblo County)
Fong reportedly told deputies that the plants were for his wife, who suffers from an undisclosed medical condition.
(credit: Pueblo County)
Investigators say Fong, 56, faces charges of possession with intent to manufacture or distribute marijuana weighing 22 kilograms or more and growing more than 30 marijuana plants.
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Fong was arrested at Pueblo County Jail.