A year long investigatigation leads to the capture of what LPD investigators term the number one Marijuana dealer in Lubbock. LPD working in conjunction with the Department of Transportation and the Lubbock County DA apprehend 21-year-old Joey Sevart, and his suspected co-horts 21-year-old Brad Townley and 20-year-old James Blackstock.
LPD Lieutenant Roy Bassett says the ring imported Marijuana into Lubbock from other areas and this pot isn't like any other it's Hydroponic.
"The deal about hydroponic marijuana is it is grown in a special way so that the same amount of hydroponic marijuana opposed to the regular-old trash marijuana, as they call it, may be as much as five times as potent or more," says Bassett.
Bassett says Sevart was moving 20 pounds of Hydro a week earning the street rate $4,000 per pound.
Multiple search warrants executed and many items were confiscated including computers, cars, bank accounts and homes with a value of approximately $300,000.
Bassett believes this bust puts a huge dent in the Lubbock drug trade.
