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OK, due to SNOWCLUSTEREFF 2011, I’m a little late on this week’s drug bust, but it’s a pretty sizable one.

This week, we head down to rural Jackson County where an Oregon State Police drug task force seized 98.6 pounds of marijuana, packaging materials, scales and a handgun. John Lee Hull, Jr was arrested on suspicion of a bevy of marijuana possession charges.

Police first found about 44 pounds of pot in a safe, then located more than 50 additional pounds scattered throughout the house in jars and five-gallon containers. They also found a small amount of marijuana drying in a closet.

So there you go, just a reminder that pot is actually still illegal in Oregon. Who knew?

This article appears in Feb 17-23, 2011.

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Oregon Drug Bust of the Week: Almost 100 Pounds of Pot

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
February 18, 2011

<h1>Oregon Drug Bust of the Week: Almost 100 Pounds of Pot</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />February 18, 2011</p> <p> OK, due to <a href="http://www.tsweekly.com/pictures-from-yesterdays-snowpocalypse.html" target="_blank">SNOWCLUSTEREFF 2011</a>, I'm a little late on this week's drug bust, but it's a pretty sizable one.</p> <p>This week, we head down to rural Jackson County where an Oregon State Police drug task force seized 98.6 pounds of marijuana, packaging materials, scales and a handgun. John Lee Hull, Jr was arrested on suspicion of a bevy of marijuana possession charges.</p> <p>Police first found about 44 pounds of pot in a safe, then located more than 50 additional pounds scattered throughout the house in jars and five-gallon containers. They also found a small amount of marijuana drying in a closet.</p> <p>So there you go, just a reminder that pot is actually still illegal in Oregon. Who knew?</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/oregon-drug-bust-of-the-week-almost-100-pounds-of-pot-2137249/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=20603&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/oregon-drug-bust-of-the-week-almost-100-pounds-of-pot-2137249/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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