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Pot Growing Operation Tied To Mexico?

The Ohio Attorney Generals' office says a marijuana growing operation discovered in rural southern Ohio could be connected to a Mexican drug cartel.12-hundred plants were discovered this week during a routine helicopter search in Pike County, where officers found two abandoned camps where Mexican nationals had stayed. There were no arrests, but officers are looking for the people who abandoned the camps. 

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.