Ohio police have arrested an alleged
drug kingpin, a 17-year-old accused of running a multimillion dollar ring that
distributed high-grade marijuana through two school districts and netted
$20,000 a month.
When cops raided the boy's bedroom at
his parents' home, they found over $6,000 in cash, prosecutors said.
Authorities have not released the
student's name, because he was a 16-year-old minor at the time he committed the
alleged drug deals. Warren County Prosecutor David Fornshell said the boy will
be tried as juvenile.
Cops first became aware of a
high-grade hydroponic strain of marijuana being sold for $350-$400 an ounce in
the Mason school district near Cincinnati last year. An undercover agent began
making buys at Mason High School, where the teenager was a student, and
uncovered a dealing operation headed by the arrested student.
"The undercover officer
uncovered six students or former students working for that individual and
trafficking drugs in two school districts," Fornshell told ABC News.
"The group supplied an
overwhelming amount of marijuana in the Mason and King school districts,"
Fornshell said.
The marijuana previously sold in the
areas was a lower-grade variety smuggled into the U.S. through the border, but
the weed they began seeing last year was a much more expensive product.
The student helped lead cops to
uncover a major grow operation, run by locals out of warehouses and other
buildings in three nearby towns.
Six other adult individuals were
ultimately arrested for their role in growing and distributing the drug.
Authorities seized 600 plants from
the three grow houses, with an estimated street value of $3 million.
All of the individuals have been indicted by a grand jury, but
have yet to be arraigned or enter pleas
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