| ORIGINAL STORY JULY 21 - The West Virginia State Police had been doing surveillance with cameras on a large marijuana growing operation on Little Creek before yesterday's arrests, according to a criminal complaint.
The report says when officers went to the site Tuesday to "change out cameras," they discovered Nicholas Wayne Davis, 49, of West Little Kanawha Highway, and Douglas Cecil Lynch, 38, of Creston, "planting more marijuana plants."
Sgt. O. S. Starsick said the duo had been using a gasoline powered auger.
Following the arrests of Davis and Lynch, Sgt. Starsick said officers had confiscated "1,300 plants and counting."
The bust was likely the largest ever in Calhoun County.
The installation of the cameras had been part of an ongoing investigation, according to Sgt. Mike T. Smith with the Marijuana Eradication Division.
Marijuana is considered to be West Virginia's biggest cash crop, in addition to many other states across America.
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