Crime & Safety
Cops Seize Backyard Pot Plant
Evergreen Park Police said they found a sizable marijuana plant in an Evergreen Park resident's back yard.
found more than foliage in a resident’s back yard when a neighbor tipped them off to possible pot production.
According to police reports, on Sept. 11 at about 5:56 p.m., officers found a 5-foot, 7-pound marijuana plant in the corner of a man’s yard on the 8900 block of South Richmond Avenue.
Police charged Wayne Young, 57, of Evergreen Park, with unlawful production of a marijuana plant, reports said.
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After police said Young denied knowing about any marijuana plant growing in his back yard, officers noticed “that the plant had just been watered.”
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