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Law enforcement officials say that Mexican drug cartels are establishing sophisticated marijuana-growing operations in North Texas. A drug investigator for the Department of Public Safety said “There is no doubt” that three large marijuana fields uncovered in Ellis and Navarro counties “have a tie to the border and a Mexican drug cartel.”

“The brought the tenders up here from Mexico to do the work. This is not Joe Bob growing some marijuana to smoke. These are professional drug operations,” said the investigator. Law enforcement officials say it’s only in the last two years that the cartels have begun to cultivate densely planted plots in North Texas. In the last month sheriff’s departments in Texas’ Ellis and Navarro counties have found three irrigated, fertilized and manicured marijuana-growing operations near Ennis and Corsicana.

According to Duane Steen, and assistant commander of the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Narcotic Service in Austin, more than 16,000 plants have been taken from the sites.

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