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Marijuana turns up in strange places

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GREEN BAY, Wis., Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Sheriff's deputies in Green Bay, Wis., would like to find the prankster who planted marijuana outside the department's headquarters at the county courthouse.

The department's drug control officer found six small marijuana plants growing in a planter on the south side of the Brown County Courthouse Tuesday, WLUK-TV, Green Bay, reported.

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"Obviously, as a prank, somebody planted or dropped some seeds into the plants," the chief deputy said.

Police in Van Wert, Ohio, arrested a 51-year-old Peru, Ind., man during the Labor Day weekend for allegedly selling marijuana from a concessions stand at the Van Wert County Fair.

The Toledo Blade said Ernest Z. Dunnagan was arrested Sunday after a fairgoer tipped off officers. Marijuana was found in his camper.

Dunnagan allegedly was recruiting people to sell pot after making sales himself.

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