2012 YEAR IN REVIEW

No. 9 Story of the Year: Mendota Heights Deer Hunter Finds 8-Foot Marijuana Plants in Valley Park

A man hired by Mendota Heights to bow hunt deer found two people cultivating marijuana in Valley Park.

Follow Mendota Heights Patch on Twitter | Like us on Facebook | Sign up for our free newsletter As the end of the year approaches, Patch recaps the biggest stories of 2012—both in terms of pageviews and impact on the Mendota Heights community. The following article was posted Sept. 26, 2012. Other Story of the Year posts: • No. 10 Story of the Year: Dodge Nature Center Says Goodbye to Bald Eagle   A bow hunter hired by Mendota Heights Police to thin out the city’s deer herd found two people in Valley Park cultivating marijuana plants that reached eight feet in height. A 19-year-old from St. Paul and a 17-year-old from Savage were arrested, cited and released for harvesting marijuana around 6:30 p.m. last Thursday, police chief Mike …

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Mendota Heights Deer Hunter Finds 8-Foot Marijuana Plants in Valley Park

A man hired by Mendota Heights to bow hunt deer found two people cultivating marijuana in Valley Park.

A bow hunter hired by Mendota Heights Police to thin out the city’s deer herd found two people in Valley Park cultivating marijuana plants that reached eight feet in height. A 19-year-old from St. Paul and a 17-year-old from Savage were arrested, cited and released for harvesting marijuana around 6:30 p.m. last Thursday, police chief Mike Aschenbrener said. “We do not have any evidence to indicate that it was their plot or that they cultivated it,” Aschenbrenner said. The Metro Bowhunters Resource Base have conducted annual deer hunts since 1995 in an effort to control deer populations. On the first day of this year’s hunt, a hunter sitting quietly in a tree stand saw the two teens cultivating marijuana near the edge of a wooded area in …

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