{"id":8143,"date":"2018-03-19T16:09:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T16:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/?p=2987127"},"modified":"2018-03-19T16:09:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T16:09:14","slug":"firefighters-tackling-carson-midway-fire-stumble-across-illegal-marijuana-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/firefighters-tackling-carson-midway-fire-stumble-across-illegal-marijuana-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters tackling Carson Midway Fire stumble across illegal marijuana grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/firefighters-tackling-carson-midway-fire-stumble-across-illegal-marijuana-grow\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Firefighters tackling the 3,300-acre Carson Midway Fire stumbled across more than 100 marijuana plants Saturday at an illegal grow house.<\/p>\n<p>At 6 p.m. that night, Metro Vice, Narcotics and Intelligence and El Paso County Sherriff deputies searched the building, which is located in a rural area south of Fort Carson, and seized the plants, according to the sheriff\u2019s office. Most of the plants were in the flowering stage and ready for harvest.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office said no arrests were made and the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related right\" \/>\n<p>The Carson Midway Fire was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2018\/03\/18\/carson-midway-fire-sunday-update\/\">contained on Sunday<\/a>. It first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2018\/03\/16\/fort-carson-wildfire-evacuations\/\">started Friday<\/a>, spreading quickly due to the wind and forcing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2018\/03\/17\/evacuation-lifted-for-some-close-to-wildfire-near-fort-carson\/\">evacuation of at least 250 homes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<aside> <\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters tackling the 3,300-acre Carson Midway Fire stumbled across more than 100 marijuana plants at an illegal grow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6811,7576,7577,6812,7263,6813,77,6814,9,5019,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[6816,7578,7579,6817,7264,6818,2655,6819,5022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}