Wheatfield Township, Pa. - Officials at the Pennsylvania Game Commission say an officer busted two Perry County residents trying to grow marijuana on state game land property.

On Wednesday afternoon, the officer said he noticed a car parked with an expired registration.  When he looked inside the car to see the stickers, he said he spotted potting soil, cups, and aluminum foil.

The officer became suspicious and summoned State Police and a game commission K-9 officer.

Once on the scene in Wheatfield Township, officers said the K-9 led them to 10 recently planted marijuana plants.

30-year-old Michelle Mance and 24-year-old Dylan Winters of New Bloomfield are accused of trying to grow the drugs.

"It's the benefit of our K-9 unit that enabled us to find exactly where they'd been on state game lands in order to find where these pot plants had been planted," said spokesperson Jerry Feaser.

Feaser said this was not the first time marijuana plants were discovered on state game lands.

 

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