Colorado Springs Marijuana Busts Were Aided By Use Of $7 Million Homeland Security Plane

Colorado Springs Marijuana Busts Were Aided By Use Of $7 Million Homeland Security Plane

A $7 million surveillance plane equipped to detect air, land and sea threats was flown from the Canadian border to Colorado Springs in April to assist in an investigation of marijuana-growing operations that apparently resulted in charges against six people.

The Department of Homeland Security plane, a Swiss-built Pilatus PC-12 Spectre, was requested on April 9 as the Metro Vice, Narcotics and Intelligence task force prepared to launch a series of searches of buildings where investigators suspected marijuana was being grown illegally.

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