Nine tons of marijuana was found on one man's property in Raymond, Wisconsin. So when you think of "nine tons" of something, it's maybe like a landfill, "nine tons" or garbage maybe? Scrap metal? But WEED??? patch

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John Gay has been sentenced to seven years in prison, after authorities were alerted to his property. There might be a dude with some pot on his land, that was a huge understatement.

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There's a search warrant, and the not well hidden NINE TONS of weed was found.

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So there were additional some additional charges against Mr. gay but they were dropped, to apparently focus more on the nine tons on pot. There was a weapons charge, there was an intent to deliver thingy, but it comes down to getting nine tons of weed.

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Here's the breakdown and other stuff found. The street value of the nine tons of pot is more than $7.2 million, also found was $120,000 in cash, firearms and records of his financial stuff.

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All of the other charges were dropped (weapons, etc) just to focus in on the total amount of weed collected.

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This one felony charge is enough and will keep dude locked up for quite a while.

I'm not sure where Raymond, Wi is but I did catch that it's a town of 3500 people. So I don't know how long this dude could really keep things hidden.

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