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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) -- Equipment and materials once used to grow marijuana in East Tennessee will now be growing vegetables.
The Johnson City Police Department and the Sullivan County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday donated lights, lamps, fans and potting soil seized from a large marijuana growing operation to the Johnson City Parks and Recreation Department and the Sullivan East High School Horticulture Department and Future Farmers of America Club.
U.S. Attorney William C. Killian said the donation means the equipment will no longer fuel the drug trade but will help young people learn constructive pursuits, like gardening.
The equipment was seized from 54-year-old old David Steven Alles, who was sentenced last month to five years in prison for a marijuana growing operation that had multiple sites in Johnson City and Bluff City.
The Johnson City Police Department and the Sullivan County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday donated lights, lamps, fans and potting soil seized from a large marijuana growing operation to the Johnson City Parks and Recreation Department and the Sullivan East High School Horticulture Department and Future Farmers of America Club.
U.S. Attorney William C. Killian said the donation means the equipment will no longer fuel the drug trade but will help young people learn constructive pursuits, like gardening.
The equipment was seized from 54-year-old old David Steven Alles, who was sentenced last month to five years in prison for a marijuana growing operation that had multiple sites in Johnson City and Bluff City.
Thursday, October 18 2012, 03:18 AM CDT
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Tishomingo County voters OK beer, alcohol sales
May 22, 2013 23:38 GMT
IUKA, Miss. (AP) -- Tishomingo County is the latest Mississippi jurisdiction to legalize alcohol sales.
Voters approved the sale of liquor, wine and beer Tuesday, reports the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal (http://bit.ly/13JCcix).
It wasn't clear referendums would pass until affidavit ballots were counted Wednesday.
With more than half Tishomingo County's voters casting ballots, legalizing alcohol passed by 42 votes, while legalizing beer and light wine passed by 73. The county borders Alabama and Tennessee.
Lawmakers legalized liquor at a proposed resort at the county's Bay Springs Lake in 2010, but it wasn't built.
Greene County voters legalized beer sales last year, while Corinth, New Albany and Senatobia have legalized alcohol sales under a 2012 law that allows cities to hold votes.
Mississippi has 13 remaining counties that allow no beer or alcohol sales.
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