VIRGINIA BEACH
Investigators recently broke up a drug distribution ring and seized more than $60,000 in marijuana, including about 265 marijuana plants from a Virginia Beach house, police said.
Johnathan L. Wright Jr., 26, and Adam Ray Pipkin, 31, both of Virginia Beach, were arrested and accused of manufacturing marijuana and booked into the Virginia Beach Correctional Center on drug and conspiracy charges. A third man, Trent T. Haynes Jr., 24, of Upper Marlboro, Md., was charged with conspiracy, police officials said Wednesday.
The investigation began June 4, when police intercepted a package containing about 30 pounds of marijuana bound for a home on Juniper Avenue, police Lt. Ken Dimitry said. Authorities saw Haynes waiting around the house that day and arrested and questioned him.
Authorities learned he planned to deliver the package to a house on Waters Drive, and they obtained a warrant to search that house, Dimitry said. There, they seized cocaine, scales and paperwork, and arrested Wright, who had listed that house and the Juniper Avenue home as his residences, records show.
Confidential informants told police that a house that Wright rents on East Road was being used to grow marijuana, and detectives staked out the house. On June 15, they arrested Pipkin moments after he walked out and got into a car.
During a search of the house, police discovered marijuana plants growing in several rooms, Dimitry said. Besides the drugs, police seized cardboard shipping boxes and plastic file boxes similar to the ones in the intercepted package June 4, records show.
Shawn Day, (757) 222-5131, shawn.day@pilotonline.com
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