FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - Cumberland County authorities arrested a man who they say found a fertile spot to grow some illicit herbs — his grandmother’s garden.
Cornelius Shaw, 30, is charged with manufacturing marijuana that he allegedly grew in his grandmother’s back yard, the sheriff's department said Sunday. He was arrested at her house Friday and was freed on $3,000 bond.
An off-duty sheriff's deputy discovered the weed patch when he was at a yard sale. Tom Zilg glanced into the yard next door and spotted what investigators later established was 25 marijuana plants with a street value of $25,000, according to a department news release.
Investigators said Shaw told his grandmother he was growing tomatoes, and she had no idea what he was really up to.
