US police have used Google Earth satellite imagery to identify illegal rows of
marijuana plants being cultivated by a drug farmer.
Authorities in Oregon
used an aircraft to verify the satellite information taken in June, which
showed dozens of plants in neat rows. Curtis Croft was discovered to be
allegedly growing three times as many plants as he was allowed to propagate by
law for medical purposes.
Croft was registered to
grow medical marijuana for five people, which amounts to 30 mature plants, but
police raid in September seized 94 plants, according to authorities.
Croft was arraigned on
drug charges last week
and released.
This isn't the first time Google Earth's satellite imagery has
been used to find drug farms: in 2009 Swiss
authorities used
satellite photos from the free service to identify a large plantation of
marijuana hidden within a cornfield
source:Telegraph
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